System Performance Engineer, Consumer Devices

The role

A System Performance Engineer will profile, benchmark, and optimize performance across embedded hardware products. You will work across operating systems, applications, camera and vision, graphics, and platform teams to define product KPIs and drive optimizations.

What you will do

• Develop system performance benchmarks, methodologies, and policies.
• Profile and analyze performance across key product use cases and workloads.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and drive optimizations.
• Define high-level product KPIs and establish measurement frameworks.
• Measure, report, and track metrics including responsiveness, memory utilization, and stability.
• Investigate field performance regressions and drive issues to resolution.

Required qualifications

• Deep experience shipping embedded or high-performance systems on Linux, Android, or iOS devices.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Rust.
• Exceptional operating systems fundamentals including process management, IPC, drivers, interrupts, power management, media frameworks, graphics, filesystems, and networking.
• Proven track record shipping real-time systems operating under tight latency, power, and memory constraints.
• Expertise with profiling and debugging tools such as Perfetto, GDB, LLDB, perf, ftrace, or Instruments.
• Experience building instrumentation, analytics, and performance tuning frameworks.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with statistics, experimentation methodologies, or data science concepts.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with embedded software, systems, camera and vision, audio, graphics, applications, and hardware teams.
• Experience defining product KPIs, benchmarking methodologies, and launch readiness metrics for hardware products.
• Experience investigating field performance regressions and driving fixes through cross-functional collaboration.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance is available for new hires.

Before you apply

• 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 Consumer Devices team builds AI-powered products that integrate hardware and software.