Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure

The role

You will design, build, integrate, and validate software used to manufacture, qualify, and deliver hardware from the factory. You will create infrastructure and tools to coordinate the production process and manage data across multiple vendors and sites.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain software infrastructure for manufacturing process execution and data export.
• Own integration across internal customers and vendor systems and processes.
• Build and maintain the CI, release, and delivery pipeline of tooling to external partners.
• Build and maintain internal systems to ingest, process, deliver, and visualize critical data.
• Build system health monitoring, telemetry, remote diagnostics, and recovery paths.
• Develop automation frameworks and monitoring for bring-up, qualification, and reliability.
• Package engineering releases into manufacturing-ready software recipes.
• Debug complex production issues spanning hardware, firmware, kernel, and cloud services.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, security, and other engineering teams to define software contracts.
• Produce architecture notes, runbooks, validation records, and decision documents.

Required qualifications

• 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.
• Experience building reliable software for real hardware.
• Familiarity with scripting in languages such as shell and python.
• Familiarity with Linux-based hardware platforms, OpenBMC, Redfish, firmware update systems, kernel drivers, and fleet management software.
• Ability to debug live hardware using logs, packet captures, firmware traces, bus captures, lab hosts, BMC journals, and Linux tooling.
• Experience with hardware bring-up, manufacturing or qualification testing, system diagnostics, release validation, or deployment of high-performance compute, accelerator, server, networking, storage,
• Ability to reason across software, firmware, hardware, manufacturing, and operations boundaries.
• Proven track record working with external vendors, manufacturing partners, or partner engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with platform security topics such as secure boot, firmware signing, device provisioning, attestation, certificate handling, trusted update flows, or access-control design

Benefits

• Relocation assistance available

Before you apply

• Candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements to comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations.
• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for advanced AI workloads.