OpenAI
Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure
$310K–$460K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years, or exceptional accomplishments demonstrating equivalent expertise.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates may need to meet certain legal status requirements under U.S. export control laws and regulations.
About the job
Build and operate software infrastructure for manufacturing, qualifying, and delivering OpenAI hardware across internal teams, vendors, and factory sites.
What you'll do
- Develop manufacturing execution, data-processing, monitoring, automation, and visualization systems.
- Integrate internal and vendor systems; maintain CI, release, and delivery pipelines for external partners.
- Debug production issues across hardware and software, and document processes, validation, and operational decisions.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of hands-on experience, or exceptional accomplishments demonstrating equivalent expertise, in system software, platform software, hardware diagnostics, and cloud infrastructure.
- Strong programming skills in C, C++, Rust or similar systems languages, with experience building reliable software for real hardware.
- Familiarity with scripting in languages such as shell and python as used in automation systems.
- Experience with hardware bring-up, manufacturing or qualification testing, system diagnostics, release validation, or deployment of relevant platforms.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Linux-based hardware platforms, OpenBMC, Redfish, firmware update systems, kernel drivers, and fleet management software.
- Familiarity with platform security topics such as secure boot, firmware signing, device provisioning, attestation, certificate handling, trusted update flows, or access-control design.
Pay
$310K – $460K USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, Rust, shell, python, Linux, OpenBMC, Redfish
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