OpenAI
Systems Software Engineer, Silicon Bringup
$266K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026
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- Candidates may need to meet certain legal status requirements under U.S. export control laws and regulations.
About the job
Develop systems software and validation infrastructure to bring new AI silicon from first power-on through integrated systems running production-representative models.
What you'll do
- Define and execute software bringup, validation, and test coverage across silicon subsystems and integrated systems.
- Build diagnostics, automation, telemetry, regression, and stress-testing infrastructure; characterize reliability and performance.
- Lead cross-functional hardware-software debugging, root-cause analysis, and validation of functionality and model performance.
What they ask for
- Strong systems programming experience in C, C++, Rust, Python, or comparable low-level environments.
- Experience bringing up or validating complex silicon, accelerators, servers, or other hardware-software systems.
- Understanding of computer architecture and compute, memory, interconnect, and I/O subsystems.
- Low-level debugging skills across firmware, drivers, operating systems, and hardware interfaces.
Nice to have
- Experience with performance characterization, stress testing, reliability testing, or production readiness.
- Ability to create rigorous test strategies and scalable automation and observability.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, Rust, Python
AI focus
Bring up and validate AI silicon and systems, including running production-representative models and confirming expected model performance.
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