Operating Systems Engineer | Consumer Devices

The role

You will build and harden OS foundations for OpenAI products. You will work across the OS kernel, core OS services, security, privacy, performance, and power.

What you will do

• Work on end-to-end OS capabilities including kernel, userspace services, and application frameworks.
• Develop, integrate, and maintain OS components like scheduling, memory management, and drivers.
• Build and maintain core OS services and daemons.
• Design and implement security and privacy mechanisms.
• Establish performance and power discipline through instrumentation and profiling.
• Build debugging and observability for the OS using tracing and profiling tools.
• Provide stable, well-documented platform interfaces for application and UI frameworks.
• Contribute to reliability and release readiness through production hardening and testing.

Required qualifications

• Strong experience with systems programming including meaningful work in the kernel and operating systems.
• Professional proficiency in C, C++ for low-level systems development.
• Experience building or maintaining core OS services and platform software.
• Track record of debugging complex issues across kernel/userspace boundaries.
• Familiarity with security fundamentals in OS design.

Nice to have

• Production experience with Rust in systems contexts
• Experience with OS security hardening
• Experience setting up and operationalizing observability
• Performance and power optimization experience
• Experience supporting application or UI frameworks at the OS boundary
• Hardware bring-up exposure
• Experience with OTA/update systems
• Experience contributing to upstream open source projects

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.