The opportunity
OpenAI’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 silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models.
What you'll do
Design, develop, and maintain custom NOS images for large-scale AI fabrics,: using open source components from SONiC, FRR, and related networking stacks.
Integrate, build and configure Linux kernel components, device drivers, switch ASIC SDKs, and SAI layers.
Bring up new switch platforms, including thermal and fan control, power: monitoring, transceiver management, watchdogs, OSFP CMIS, LEDs, CPLDs, and board-specific platform logic.
Extend and customize NOS services for routing, telemetry, control-plane state, and distributed automation.
Implement and debug route, neighbor, next-hop, and ECMP programming flows: from control-plane intent through ASIC hardware state.
Build software mechanisms that distinguish control-plane acceptance, SAI/SDK: acceptance, and explicit hardware programming acknowledgement.
What they're looking for
- Work with hardware teams to validate ASIC configurations, link bring-up,: SerDes tuning, buffer profiles, and performance baselines.
- Evaluate switch silicon SDK releases, track vendor deliverables, and validate: platform requirements with vendors and ASIC partners.
- Debug complex issues spanning kernel drivers, platform monitoring, NOS: services, routing agents, orchestration services, hardware signals, ASIC state, and network topology.
- Integrate switches into fleet-wide monitoring, remote diagnostics, telemetry: pipelines, and automated lifecycle workflows.
