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Systems Software Engineer, Management Plane

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labremotesenior$266k–$445k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build manageability software for OpenAI's first-party AI hardware systems.
  • Own validation from bring-up through production deployment at scale.
  • Drive system health monitoring and recovery for frontier AI supercomputing.

What they offer

  • Offers Equity
  • Relocation assistance available

Ideal candidate

A hands-on, high-ownership systems builder who loves debugging across hardware and software and shepherding first-party platforms from bring-up to production.

Requirements

  • 7+ years hands-on in low-level system software, firmware, BMC, drivers or diagnostics
  • Strong programming in C, C++, Rust or similar systems languages for real hardware
  • Experience with Linux platforms, OpenBMC, Redfish, BIOS/UEFI, bootloaders, kernel drivers or fleet management
  • Strong knowledge of I2C, SMBus, PMBus, SPI, PCIe, Ethernet, UART, GPIO, JTAG and board debug tools
  • Ability to debug live hardware with logs, packet and bus captures, firmware traces and Linux tooling
  • Experience with bring-up, qualification, manufacturing testing and deployment of compute platforms
  • Proven track record working with external vendors and manufacturing partners to drive issues to closure
remote policy
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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