San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Consumer Products

Compensation

• $293K – $325K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

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 certification, field interoperability, and fleet-scale connectivity infrastructure.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 4 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Design, implement, and debug Bluetooth/BLE and Wi-Fi features across kernel drivers, BlueZ/wpa\_supplicant/hostapd, and systemd/D-Bus services

• Deliver robust pairing, bonding, and provisioning flows (GATT/GAP, LE Audio/LC3, WPA3/802.1X, captive portals, NAN)

• Optimize link performance: throughput, latency, jitter, roaming, coexistence (BT↔Wi-Fi), and power modes (TWT, WoWLAN)

• Build reliable network management using NetworkManager/nmcli, nl80211/cfg80211/mac80211, DNS/DHCP/mDNS, P2P/SoftAP

• Instrument and analyze with packet captures and tooling (btmon/hcidump, Wireshark, iperf, eBPF/perf, spectrum sniffers)

• Drive interoperability and certification readiness (Bluetooth SIG, Wi-Fi Alliance) and resolve field issues with root-cause fixes

• Contribute to OTA-safe configuration, telemetry, and diagnostics for fleet-scale operation

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have deep experience shipping wireless features on Linux-based products

• Are highly proficient in C/C++ with scripting experience (Python or shell) and systems debugging (gdb, strace, logs, packet traces)

• Possess deep knowledge of Bluetooth Classic/BLE (HCI, L2CAP, GATT/GAP, profiles) and Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax, WPA2/3, nl80211, NAN)

• Bring hands-on experience with BlueZ, wpa\_supplicant/hostapd, NetworkManager, and driver bring-up on ARM64 or x86 platforms

• Have a proven track record of improving real-world performance and reliability under RF constraints

Preferred qualifications:

• 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.

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About the Team

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.

About the role

We are looking for an Operating Systems Engineer to build and harden the OS foundations for OpenAI products. We are especially interested in experienced, passionate, and innovative operating systems developers who thrive on building foundational platform software and solving hard problems in security, privacy, performance, power, and reliability. You will work across the OS kernel, core OS services, security and privacy primitives, performance and power, and the frameworks that connect applications and UI to the system. This role emphasizes deep debugging and systems ownership from development through production.

Responsibilities

• 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.

• 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.

• Provide stable, well-documented platform interfaces for application frameworks and UI frameworks:

• Windowing/compositing primitives (e.g., Wayland), input pipelines, graphics stack integration (e.g., DRM/KMS), and UI performance.

• System APIs for permissions, notifications, background execution, storage, device access, and lifecycle management.

• Contribute to reliability and release readiness:

• Production hardening, incident response participation, and cross-team debugging.

• Test strategy across unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop environments; improve coverage and reduce flakiness.

Required qualifications

• Strong experience with systems programming (such as with Linux, BSD, etc), including meaningful work in the kernel (drivers, core subsystems, or platform enablement) and operating systems.

• Professional proficiency in C, C++ for low-level systems development.

• Experience building or maintaining core OS services and platform software (system services, daemons, init/service management, device management, logging/telemetry pipelines).

• Track record of debugging complex issues across kernel/userspace boundaries using tracing, profiling, and structured root cause analysis.

• Familiarity with security fundamentals in OS design: isolation boundaries, privilege separation, secure IPC, attack surface reduction, and vulnerability mitigation.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit).

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks).

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law).

• Mental health and wellness support.

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth.

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible.

• Relocation support for eligible employees.

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity package.

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technology.

• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.

• Access to state-of-the-art hardware and software tools.

• Professional development opportunities.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

How to apply

If you are a motivated and talented individual who is passionate about building AI-powered products, please submit your application, including your resume and a cover letter, to [insert contact information]. We look forward to hearing from you!

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