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Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labremotesenior$310k–$460k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Design software infrastructure that runs factory manufacturing and qualification.
  • Coordinate end-to-end assembly and validation across multiple vendors and sites.
  • Build monitoring and diagnostics that make manufacturing failures traceable.

What they offer

  • Relocation assistance
  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Hands-on systems builder who thrives owning factory software end to end and partnering across hardware and operations teams to drive velocity and quality in production.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience, or equivalent expertise, in system software, platform software, hardware diagnostics, and cloud infrastructure
  • Strong programming skills in C, C++, Rust or similar systems languages for real hardware
  • Familiarity with scripting in shell and Python for automation systems
  • Familiarity with Linux-based hardware platforms, OpenBMC, Redfish, firmware update systems, kernel drivers, and fleet management software
  • Ability to debug live hardware using logs, packet captures, firmware traces, bus captures, BMC journals, and Linux tooling
  • Experience with hardware bring-up, manufacturing or qualification testing, system diagnostics, release validation, or deployment of high-performance compute
remote policy
Hybrid: 3 days/week onsite

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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