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Software Engineer, Kernel Performance & AI Tooling

About the TeamOpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native si

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-04-17T16:45:35.079+00:00

OpenAI's Hardware organization is hiring a software engineer for kernel performance and AI tooling. The work covers developer tooling and workflows for kernel development, observability and validation infrastructure for AI-assisted optimization systems, end-to-end kernel optimization using search loops and bottleneck analysis, and better datasets, benchmarks and evaluations for those systems. The posting wants systems or tooling engineering experience, depth in kernels, accelerators or compilers, and familiarity with agentic workflows, post-training or reinforcement learning. The role sits in San Francisco, hybrid.