Systems Software Engineer, Management Plane
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$266k–$445k
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