System Software Engineer
System Software Engineer
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USD 405000 - 405000
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Job Description
OpenAI is looking for a System Software Engineer to design implement and debug the foundational software that enables our products. Youll work across the OS stackkernel drivers and userspace daemonsand own pipelines for building and updating device images. Your work will span performance tuning security hardening and deep system debugging.
Were looking for engineers who thrive in complex cross-disciplinary environments can take ownership from concept to release and are passionate about shipping robust production-grade systems.
In this role you will:
Design implement and debug kernel modules device drivers and userspace daemons
Configure and maintain the OS: kernel initramfs init services udev rules networking and security hardening
Build and operate image/OTA pipelines (Yocto/Buildroot package management A/B updates dm-verity)
Instrument and analyze performance with perf eBPF ftrace; optimize CPU memory I/O and power usage
Own system observability and reliability: logging crash capture watchdogs and field diagnostics
Collaborate with hardware camera/vision and application teams to define interfaces and deliver features
Establish strong engineering practices: code review CI reproducible builds and release management
Work with vendors and support system builds in the factory
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have deep experience shipping Linux-based products on hardware devices (arm64 or x86)
Are proficient in C/C and comfortable with embedded Linux internals (drivers IRQs power management filesystems networking)
Have strong systems debugging skills with gdb strace perf/eBPF jtag and kernel logs
Understand kernel device tree overlays I2S I2C SPI CSI/DSI
Are fluent in userspace foundations: systemd D-Bus sockets/IPC udev networking tools shell/Python
Have experience building OS images and packages (Yocto/Buildroot Debian/RPM Docker) and OTA updates
Bonus points for:
Upstream contributions to Linux or major subsystems
Experience with secure boot platform security SELinux/AppArmor TrustZone/OP-TEE
Graphics/ISP or accelerator driver exposure (GPU V4L2 media/codec DMA shared memory)
Wireless connectivity stack experience (Wi-Fi/BLE NetworkManager wpasupplicant)
Production observability at the edge (symbolized crash reports metrics remote diagnostics)
Experience in robotics mobile or other resource-constrained devices
Familiarity with on-device ML accelerators audio pipelines (ALSA DSP WebRTC gstreamer)
Knowledge of protobuf and other serialization formats
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information please see OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary confidential and non-public addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
