Firmware Engineer, RTOS, Consumer Devices

About this role

OpenAI seeks an experienced Firmware Engineer to design and optimize embedded software for consumer devices, working closely with hardware teams to deliver high-performance, production-ready systems. The role involves low-level bring-up, C/C++ development, debugging, and performance optimization across the product lifecycle.

What you'll do

• Design, implement, and debug embedded device software
• Perform board bring-up and low-level debugging on new hardware
• Define software requirements, interfaces, and test plans
• Optimize performance, memory usage, and power consumption
• Investigate field issues and perform root-cause analysis
• Advocate for software engineering best practices

What they're looking for

• C and C++ programming
• Embedded systems design and bring-up
• Embedded toolchains and debugging tools
• Operating systems (RTOS preferred)
• Performance and power profiling
• Zephyr RTOS (nice to have)
• Networking stacks like BLE/Wi-Fi (nice to have)
• Linux kernel development (nice to have)

Benefits

• Hybrid work model (4 days in office per week)
• Relocation assistance provided
• Based in San Francisco, CA
• Work on cutting-edge consumer devices
• Collaborative hardware-software partnership