Operating Systems Engineer | Consumer Devices

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 230,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Skills: ["C","C++","Rust","Linux","BSD","Kernel","Drivers","Security","Tracing","Profiling","Telemetry"]

We are seeking an Operating Systems Engineer to build and harden the OS foundations for OpenAI consumer devices. You’ll own end-to-end OS components, kernel-bound and userspace services, and security/privacy mechanisms, collaborating across embedded, firmware, hardware, and product teams to deliver secure, high-performance, power-aware platform software for AI-enabled devices.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
7 months ago

Operating Systems Engineer | Consumer Devices

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Job Summary

We are seeking an Operating Systems Engineer to build and harden the OS foundations for OpenAI consumer devices. You’ll own end-to-end OS components, kernel-bound and userspace services, and security/privacy mechanisms, collaborating across embedded, firmware, hardware, and product teams to deliver secure, high-performance, power-aware platform software for AI-enabled devices.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Work on end-to-end OS capabilities spanning the OS kernel, userspace services, application frameworks, UI toolkits, and application-facing APIs.
  • •Develop, integrate, and maintain OS components, both kernel-bound and in userspace, including scheduling, memory management, filesystems, drivers, IPC/RPC mechanisms, and security-relevant subsystems.
  • •Build and maintain core OS services and daemons (init, service management, device discovery, networking primitives, time, logging, update hooks, crash handling, and so on).
  • •Design and implement security and privacy mechanisms including secure boot/measured boot, mandatory access control and sandboxing, secrets management, and privacy-preserving telemetry.
  • •Establish a performance and power discipline with instrumentation, profiling, and regression detection for boot time, latency, throughput, and memory; power measurement, tuning, and energy regression prevention.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 230,000 - 385,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Strong experience with systems programming (Linux, BSD, etc) including meaningful work in the kernel (drivers, core subsystems, or platform enablement) and operating systems.
  • •Professional proficiency in C, C++ for low-level systems development.
  • •Experience building or maintaining core OS services and platform software (system services, daemons, init/service management, device management, logging/telemetry pipelines).
  • •Track record of debugging complex issues across kernel/userspace boundaries using tracing, profiling, and structured root cause analysis.
  • •Familiarity with security fundamentals in OS design: isolation boundaries, privilege separation, secure IPC, attack surface reduction, and vulnerability mitigation practices.
Experience:Embedded systemsHardwareAiConsumer devices
Skills:CC++RustLinuxBSDKernelDriversSecurityTracingProfilingTelemetry
Tech Stack:CC++RustLinuxBSDEBPFWaylandDRM/KMSFtracePerf

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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