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System Software Engineer, Consumer Devices

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labonsite$347k–$385k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Design and debug core platform components across operating system layers.
  • Build reliable image and update pipelines with rollback safety.
  • Own platform observability with logging, crash capture and diagnostics.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • Relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

A systems-minded engineer who loves deep debugging and shipping production-grade platforms. You care about performance, security and reliability and thrive collaborating across teams from concept to launch.

Requirements

  • Have shipped production systems software on modern operating systems.
  • Proficient in C/C++ and a scripting language, and comfortable with OS internals (concurrency, memory management, filesystems, networking, power management).
  • Strong systems debugging skills using debuggers, tracers, profilers, and logs across kernel/user-space boundaries.
  • Understand configuration of platform services and interfaces, and can translate requirements into stable, well-documented APIs.
  • Fluent in user-space foundations (service management, IPC, networking, packaging, automation).
  • Experience building platform images and designing update mechanisms for reliability and security.
remote policy
Hybrid: 4 days onsite/week

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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