The opportunity
The 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 to deliver reliable, production-ready devices at scale.
What you'll do
Work on end-to-end OS capabilities spanning the OS kernel, userspace: services, application frameworks, UI toolkits, and application-facing APIs.
Develop, integrate, and maintain OS components, both kernel-bound and in: userspace, including scheduling, memory management, filesystems, drivers, IPC/RPC mechanisms, and security-relevant subsystems.
Build and maintain core OS services and daemons (init, service management,: device discovery, networking primitives, time, logging, update hooks, crash handling, and so on).
Design and implement security and privacy mechanisms: Secure boot and measured boot integration points (where applicable).
Mandatory access control and sandboxing.
Secrets management, secure storage, key handling, and least-privilege service design.
What they're looking for
- Privacy-preserving telemetry, data minimization, and user-consent oriented system behaviors.
- Establish a performance and power discipline: Instrumentation, profiling, and regression detection for boot time, latency, throughput, and memory.
- Power measurement workflows, battery and thermal aware tuning, and energy regression prevention.
- Build first-class debugging and observability for the OS: Tracing and: profiling using tools such as ftrace, perf, eBPF, BPFtrace, LTTng, systemtap, flamegraphs. Crash triage and root cause analysis across kernel and userspace, including postmortem tooling and symbolication.