System Performance Engineer, Consumer Devices
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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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 profile, benchmark and optimize performance across embedded hardware products, working with OS, applications, camera and vision, graphics and platform teams. You will define product KPIs, build performance tooling, and drive optimizations from lab characterization through launch and real-world usage. The role is based in San Francisco with four days in the office and one remote, and relocation assistance is available.
Requirements
- Deep experience shipping embedded or high-performance systems on Linux, Android, or iOS devices
- Strong proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Rust with exceptional operating systems fundamentals
- Proven track record shipping real-time systems under tight latency, power and memory constraints
- Expertise with profiling and debugging tools such as Perfetto, GDB, LLDB, perf, ftrace, or Instruments
- Experience building instrumentation, analytics and performance tuning frameworks
Responsibilities
- Develop system performance benchmarks, methodologies and policies
- Profile and analyze performance across key use cases and workloads
- Partner with engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and drive optimizations
- Define product KPIs and measurement frameworks for launch readiness
- Measure and track responsiveness, memory utilization, cold boot performance, stability and constrained-condition behavior
- Investigate field performance regressions and drive resolution
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Equity
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends