OpenAI
System Software Engineer, Consumer Devices
$347K–$385K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Dec 16, 2025
About the job
Designs, builds, and debugs system software and image-update pipelines for consumer devices, with a focus on performance, security, and reliability.
What you'll do
- Develop and debug kernel- and user-space components, platform services, and tooling.
- Build and operate reproducible, reliable system image and update pipelines, including rollback safety.
- Improve performance and reliability through profiling, tracing, observability, diagnostics, and cross-functional collaboration.
What they ask for
- Production systems software experience on modern operating systems.
- Proficiency in C/C++ and a scripting language, with knowledge of OS internals.
- Strong debugging skills across kernel and user space using debuggers, tracers, profilers, and logs.
- Experience building platform images and designing reliable, secure update mechanisms.
Nice to have
- Exposure to platform security, such as secure boot, sandboxing, mandatory access controls, or attestation.
- Experience with graphics/media, hardware acceleration, high-throughput data paths, connectivity stacks, or open-source systems projects.
Pay
$347K – $385K USD base salary
Tools
C/C++
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