System Performance Engineer, Consumer Devices

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 293,000 - 325,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["C","C++","Python","Rust","Perfetto","GDB","LLDB","Perf","Ftrace","Instruments","Linux","Android","IOS","Hardware","Graphics","Drivers"]

Profile, benchmark, and optimize performance across embedded hardware products. Define product KPIs, build performance tooling, and drive optimizations from lab characterization through product launch and real-world usage. Collaborate with OS, camera/vision, graphics, and platform teams to keep systems responsive, efficient, and reliable under tight latency, power, and memory constraints.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
3 months ago

System Performance Engineer, Consumer Devices

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Job Summary

Profile, benchmark, and optimize performance across embedded hardware products. Define product KPIs, build performance tooling, and drive optimizations from lab characterization through product launch and real-world usage. Collaborate with OS, camera/vision, graphics, and platform teams to keep systems responsive, efficient, and reliable under tight latency, power, and memory constraints.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • ā€¢Develop system performance benchmarks, methodologies, and policies to evaluate end-to-end product behavior.
  • ā€¢Profile and analyze performance across key product use cases and workloads using custom and industry-standard profiling tools.
  • ā€¢Partner closely with engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and drive performance optimizations across the software stack.
  • ā€¢Define high-level product KPIs and establish measurement frameworks to measure launch readiness and monitor performance throughout the product lifecycle.
  • ā€¢Measure, report, and track metrics including system responsiveness, memory utilization, cold boot performance, long-term stability, and behavior under constrained conditions such as thermal limits and low battery states.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 293,000 - 325,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkRelocationEquity

Key Requirements

  • ā€¢Deep experience shipping embedded or high-performance systems on Linux, Android, or iOS devices.
  • ā€¢Strong proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Rust, with exceptional operating systems fundamentals, including process management, IPC, drivers, interrupts, power management, media frameworks, graphics, filesystems, and networking.
  • ā€¢A proven track record shipping real-time systems operating under tight latency, power, and memory constraints.
  • ā€¢Expertise with profiling and debugging tools such as Perfetto, GDB, LLDB, perf, ftrace, or Instruments.
  • ā€¢Experience building instrumentation, analytics, and performance tuning frameworks.
Experience:Embedded systemsHigh-performance systemsHardware
Skills:CC++PythonRustPerfettoGDBLLDBPerfFtraceInstrumentsLinuxAndroidIOSHardwareGraphicsDrivers
Languages:English
Tech Stack:CC++PythonRustPerfettoGDBLLDBPerfFtraceInstrumentsLinuxAndroidIOSHardwareGraphicsDrivers

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALLĀ·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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