Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid: 4 days onsite/week). Relocation assistance available. About the Team: We build foundational platform software that enables reliable, secure, and performant products. The team works across system layers and partners closely with adjacent engineering groups to deliver robust capabilities from concept through launch. About the Role: We’re seeking a System Software Engineer to design, implement, and debug core platform components and the pipelines that build and update system images. You’ll work across operating system layers, focusing on performance, security, and deep system debugging to ship production‑grade systems. In this role, you will: Design, implement, and debug system‑level components and services across kernel and user space. Configure and maintain OS platform services (init, services, networking, security policies) and related tooling. Build and operate image and update pipelines, ensuring reliability, reproducibility, and rollback safety. Instrument and analyze performance using profiling and tracing; optimize CPU, memory, I/O, and power usage. Own platform observability and reliability: logging, crash capture, watchdogs, and diagnostics. Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define interfaces and deliver end‑to‑end features. Establish strong engineering practices: code review, CI, reproducible builds, and release management. Partner with external suppliers to support builds and deployments. You might thrive in this role if you: Have shipped production systems software on modern operating systems. Are proficient in C/C++ and a scripting language, and comfortable with OS internals (concurrency, memory management, filesystems, networking, power management). Bring strong systems debugging skills using debuggers, tracers, profilers, and logs across kernel/user‑space boundaries. Understand configuration of platform services and interfaces, and can translate requirements into stable, well‑documented APIs. Are fluent in u
Connectivity Software Engineer, Consumer Devices
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$177,185–$210,950 / year for comparable Software Engineer roles in United States. Not employer-provided.
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About the Team The Connectivity Software Engineering team is responsible for enabling seamless, secure, and high-performance wireless connectivity across OpenAI’s products. We design and optimize Bluetooth, BLE, Wi-Fi, and emerging wireless technologies to ensure robust device pairing, network performance, and interoperability. Our work spans kernel drivers, system services, and user-level tools, with a focus on real-world performance, scalability, and reliability. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Connectivity Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize wireless connectivity features across our product ecosystem. You’ll work at the intersection of systems software, wireless standards, and hardware integration—building robust pairing and provisioning flows, debugging low-level protocols, and driving performance under real-world RF constraints. You will also support certificatio
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Experience with LE Audio (LC3), BLE Mesh, advanced roaming (802.11k/v/r), QoS/WMM, multicast/IGMP Coexistence tuning across radios (BT/Wi-Fi/UWB/mmWave) and antenna/RF fundamentals with test equipment workflows Familiarity with UWB (IEEE 802.15.4z, FiRa) ranging/integration; mmWave/Wi-Gig (802.11ad/ay) Experience with security and provisioning at scale (EAP-TLS, device identity, secure boot, disk/network hardening) Background in building factory test, interoperability, and certification test plans; upstream/open-source contributions About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual or
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OpenAI
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