System Software 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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, implement, and debug system-level components and services across kernel and user space. You'll configure OS platform services, build and operate image and update pipelines, profile and optimize performance, own platform observability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams and external suppliers to deliver end-to-end features.
Requirements
- Have shipped production systems software on modern operating systems
- Proficient in C/C++ and a scripting language, with OS internals knowledge
- Strong systems debugging skills using debuggers, tracers, profilers, and logs
- Understand configuration of platform services and can design stable, well-documented APIs
- Fluent in user-space foundations (service management, IPC, networking, packaging, automation)
- Experience building platform images and designing update mechanisms
- Preferred: platform security exposure, graphics/media, connectivity stacks, observability, open-source contributions
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and debug system-level components and services across kernel and user space
- Configure and maintain OS platform services and related tooling
- Build and operate image and update pipelines ensuring reliability, reproducibility, and rollback safety
- Instrument and analyze performance using profiling and tracing; optimize CPU, memory, I/O, and power usage
- Own platform observability and reliability including logging, crash capture, watchdogs, and diagnostics
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define interfaces and deliver end-to-end features
- Establish engineering practices: code review, CI, reproducible builds, and release management
- Partner with external suppliers to support builds and deployments
Benefits
- Equity
- 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 (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures, plus paid sick 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
- Performance-related bonus for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
