OpenAI
System Performance Engineer, Consumer Devices
$347K–$385K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 15, 2026
About the job
Profiles, benchmarks, and optimizes performance across embedded consumer hardware products from early development through launch and real-world use.
What you'll do
- Develop benchmarks, methodologies, and KPIs to evaluate system performance and launch readiness.
- Analyze performance across product workloads and partner with engineering teams to resolve bottlenecks and regressions.
- Track responsiveness, memory use, boot performance, stability, and behavior under thermal and battery constraints.
What they ask for
- Experience shipping embedded or high-performance systems on Linux, Android, or iOS devices.
- Proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Rust and strong operating systems fundamentals.
- Track record shipping real-time systems under tight latency, power, and memory constraints.
- Expertise with profiling and debugging tools such as Perfetto, GDB, LLDB, perf, ftrace, or Instruments.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with statistics, experimentation methodologies, or data science concepts.
- Experience defining product KPIs, benchmarking methodologies, and launch readiness metrics for hardware products.
Pay
$347K – $385K USD base salary
Tools
Linux, Android, iOS, C/C++, Python, Rust, Perfetto, GDB
AI focus
Works on performance engineering for AI-powered consumer hardware products; no direct AI development duties are stated.
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