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Operating Systems Engineer | Consumer Devices

About the TeamThe Consumer Devices team at OpenAI builds end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world. We work at the intersection of custom silicon, embedded systems, operating systems, and cloud services

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-26T17:25:11.223+00:00

OpenAI's Consumer Devices team is hiring an Operating Systems Engineer in San Francisco, on-site, to build the OS foundations for its hardware products. The work spans kernel and userspace components such as scheduling, memory management, drivers and IPC, plus core services, secure boot and sandboxing, privacy-preserving telemetry, performance and power profiling, and debugging tooling. The posting asks for kernel-level systems programming, C and C++, and root-cause analysis across kernel/userspace boundaries, with Rust, OS hardening and hardware bring-up listed as preferred or nice to have.