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System Software Engineer, Consumer Devices

OpenAI · San Francisco

$293k - $325k/yrMid levelEngineeringConsumer ProductsConsumer ProductsPosted 12 months ago
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Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid: 4 days onsite/week). Relocation assistance available. About the Team: We build foundational platform software that enables reliable, secure, and performant products. The team works across system layers and partners closely with adjacent engineering groups to deliver robust capabilities from concept through launch. About the Role: We’re seeking a System Software Engineer to design, implement, and debug core platform components and the pipelines that build and update system images. You’ll work across operating system layers, focusing on performance, security, and deep system debugging to ship production‑grade systems. In this role, you will: - Design, implement, and debug system‑level components and services across kernel and user space. - Configure and maintain OS platform services (init, services, networking, security policies) 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: logging, crash capture, watchdogs, and diagnostics. - Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define interfaces and deliver end‑to‑end features. - Establish strong engineering practices: code review, CI, reproducible builds, and release management. - Partner with external suppliers to support builds and deployments. You might thrive in this role if you: - Have shipped production systems software on modern operating systems. - Are proficient in C/C++ and a scripting language, and comfortable with OS internals (concurrency, memory management, filesystems, networking, power management). - Bring strong systems debugging skills using debuggers, tracers, profilers, and logs across kernel/user‑space boundaries. - Understand configuration of platform services and interfaces, and can translate requirements into stable, well‑document

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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