Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 310,000 - 460,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["High ownership","Cross-functional collaboration","Problem decomposition","Debugging","Vendor collaboration"]

Design, build, and integrate the software infrastructure that powers first-party hardware manufacturing—from factory execution and data export to release tooling for external partners. Own CI/release/delivery pipelines, internal systems for ingesting and visualizing critical manufacturing data, and health monitoring with telemetry and recovery paths. Debug complex production issues across hardware and systems, and partner with cross-functional teams to define standards, runbooks, and platform-ready engineering outputs.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
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Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Design, build, and integrate the software infrastructure that powers first-party hardware manufacturing—from factory execution and data export to release tooling for external partners. Own CI/release/delivery pipelines, internal systems for ingesting and visualizing critical manufacturing data, and health monitoring with telemetry and recovery paths. Debug complex production issues across hardware and systems, and partner with cross-functional teams to define standards, runbooks, and platform-ready engineering outputs.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop, and maintain software infrastructure for manufacturing process execution and data export.
  • •Integrate across internal customers and vendor systems and processes.
  • •Build and maintain CI/release/delivery pipelines and tooling for external partners.
  • •Develop internal systems to ingest, process, deliver, and visualize critical manufacturing data.
  • •Implement system health monitoring, telemetry, remote diagnostics, and recovery paths; package releases into manufacturing-ready software recipes and debug complex end-to-end production issues.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 310,000 - 460,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years hands-on experience in system software, platform software, hardware diagnostics, and/or cloud infrastructure.
  • •Strong programming skills in C, C++, Rust (or similar systems languages) for reliable software for real hardware.
  • •Experience with Linux-based hardware platforms and tooling such as OpenBMC, Redfish, firmware update systems, kernel drivers, and fleet management software.
  • •Familiarity with scripting (e.g., shell, Python) for automation systems used in manufacturing.
  • •Experience debugging live hardware using logs and traces, and working across hardware/firmware/manufacturing/test/deployment boundaries.
Experience:Hardware diagnosticsPlatform softwareHardware bring-upManufacturingCloud infrastructureHigh-performance compute
Skills:High ownershipCross-functional collaborationProblem decompositionDebuggingVendor collaboration
Tech Stack:CC++RustShellPythonLinuxOpenBMCRedfishFirmware update systemsKernel driversCIRelease pipelineTelemetryRemote diagnosticsSecure bootFirmware signingDevice provisioningAttestationCertificate handlingTrusted update

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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