System Software Engineer, Consumer Devices
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labonsite$347k–$385k
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