OpenAI's Embedded Software Engineering team builds reliable, high-performance systems on custom hardware, bridging cutting-edge devices and real-world constraints like memory, power, and latency. The role aims to design, implement, and debug software for these embedded devices, ensuring robust, efficient, and production-ready platforms.
Requirements
- Are proficient in C and C++.
- Are familiar with embedded toolchains, operating systems, and debugging tools.
- Have experience with both rapid prototyping and scalable product development.
- Have experience with Zephyr RTOS.
- Have worked with networking/wireless stacks (BLE, Wi-Fi).
- Have experience with robotic system bring-up or Linux kernel development.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and debug software for embedded devices.
- Contribute to defining software requirements, interfaces, and test plans.
- Bring up and debug new boards.
- Analyze performance, memory, and power profiles and implement optimizations.
- Investigate field issues, perform root-cause analysis, and deliver robust fixes.
- Foster good software engineering practices.
Other
- We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week
- offer relocation assistance to new employees.
- We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
- Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
