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Firmware Engineer, RTOS, Consumer Devices

San Francisco (Remote)$293k–$325kfulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

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
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OpenAI

OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through your experience bringing up a new embedded board from scratch. What were the biggest challenges and how did you debug them?
  • Tell us about a time you had to optimize firmware for memory, power, or latency constraints. What tools and techniques did you use?
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