OpenAI
Systems Software Engineer, Management Plane
$266K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted May 7, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of hands-on experience, 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
Designs and validates low-level system software, firmware, and automation for managing, diagnosing, and deploying OpenAI’s first-party AI hardware.
What you'll do
- Develop firmware and system software for hardware manageability, including BMC services, telemetry, update and recovery flows, drivers, and diagnostics.
- Own integration and acceptance of partner software releases, including code review, reproducible builds, CI, testing, and launch-readiness evidence.
- Build lab automation, validation, monitoring, and recovery capabilities, and debug issues across hardware, firmware, and software.
What they ask for
- Strong programming skills in C, C++, Rust or similar systems languages, with experience building reliable software for real hardware.
- Experience with Linux-based hardware platforms and relevant firmware, BMC, BIOS/UEFI, driver, or fleet-management technologies.
- Knowledge of hardware/software interfaces and demonstrated ability to debug live hardware.
- Ability to work across software, firmware, hardware, manufacturing, and operations; vendor or partner engineering experience.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with platform security, including secure boot, firmware signing, provisioning, attestation, or trusted updates.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, Rust, Linux, OpenBMC, Redfish, BMCWeb, I2C
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