Operating Systems Engineer, Consumer Devices
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will build and harden the OS foundations for OpenAI products, working across the kernel, core services, security and privacy primitives, performance and power, and application frameworks. You'll debug deeply across kernel and userspace and collaborate with embedded, firmware, hardware and application teams.
Requirements
- Strong systems programming experience (Linux, BSD) including kernel work
- Professional proficiency in C and C++
- Experience building core OS services and platform software
- Track record debugging complex kernel/userspace issues
- Familiarity with OS security fundamentals
Responsibilities
- Work on end-to-end OS capabilities spanning kernel, userspace services, application frameworks and APIs
- Develop and maintain OS components including scheduling, memory management, filesystems, drivers and IPC
- Build and maintain core OS services and daemons
- Design and implement security and privacy mechanisms such as secure boot, sandboxing and secrets management
- Establish performance and power instrumentation, profiling and regression detection
- Build debugging and observability tooling using ftrace, perf, eBPF and similar
- Provide stable platform interfaces for application and UI frameworks
- Contribute to reliability, production hardening and release readiness
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends