Connectivity Software Engineer

About the Team
The Connectivity Software Engineering team is responsible for enabling seamless secure and high-performance wireless connectivity across OpenAIs products. We design and optimize Bluetooth BLE Wi-Fi and emerging wireless technologies to ensure robust device pairing network performance and interoperability. Our work spans kernel drivers system services and user-level tools with a focus on real-world performance scalability and reliability.

About the Role
OpenAI is seeking a Connectivity Software Engineer to design implement and optimize wireless connectivity features across our product ecosystem. Youll work at the intersection of systems software wireless standards and hardware integrationbuilding robust pairing and provisioning flows debugging low-level protocols and driving performance under real-world RF constraints. You will also support certification field interoperability and fleet-scale connectivity infrastructure.

This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model of 4 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role you will:

• Design implement and debug Bluetooth/BLE and Wi-Fi features across kernel drivers BlueZ/wpasupplicant/hostapd and systemd/D-Bus services

• Deliver robust pairing bonding and provisioning flows (GATT/GAP LE Audio/LC3 WPA3/802.1X captive portals NAN)

• Optimize link performance: throughput latency jitter roaming coexistence (BTWi-Fi) and power modes (TWT WoWLAN)

• Build reliable network management using NetworkManager/nmcli nl80211/cfg80211/mac80211 DNS/DHCP/mDNS P2P/SoftAP

• Instrument and analyze with packet captures and tooling (btmon/hcidump Wireshark iperf eBPF/perf spectrum sniffers)

• Drive interoperability and certification readiness (Bluetooth SIG Wi-Fi Alliance) and resolve field issues with root-cause fixes

• Contribute to OTA-safe configuration telemetry and diagnostics for fleet-scale operation

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have deep experience shipping wireless features on Linux-based products

• Are highly proficient in C/C with scripting experience (Python or shell) and systems debugging (gdb strace logs packet traces)

• Possess deep knowledge of Bluetooth Classic/BLE (HCI L2CAP GATT/GAP profiles) and Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax WPA2/3 nl80211 NAN)

• Bring hands-on experience with BlueZ wpasupplicant/hostapd NetworkManager and driver bring-up on ARM64 or x86 platforms

• Have a proven track record of improving real-world performance and reliability under RF constraints

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with LE Audio (LC3) BLE Mesh advanced roaming (802.11k/v/r) QoS/WMM multicast/IGMP

• Coexistence tuning across radios (BT/Wi-Fi/UWB/mmWave) and antenna/RF fundamentals with test equipment workflows

• Familiarity with UWB (IEEE 802.15.4z FiRa) ranging/integration; mmWave/Wi-Gig (802.11ad/ay)

• Experience with security and provisioning at scale (EAP-TLS device identity secure boot disk/network hardening)

• Background in building factory test interoperability and certification test plans; upstream/open-source contributions

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.

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