OpenAI

Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure

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Base Salary

$310k - $460k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain software infrastructure for manufacturing process execution and data export.
  • Integrate internal customer and vendor systems and processes.
  • Build and maintain CI, release, and delivery pipelines for tooling delivered to external partners.
  • Develop systems to ingest, process, deliver, and visualize manufacturing data.
  • Build monitoring, telemetry, remote diagnostics, and recovery paths for manufacturing failures.
  • Develop automation frameworks for board bring-up, rack bring-up, qualification, manufacturing readiness, deployment readiness, and long-term reliability.
  • Package engineering releases into manufacturing-ready software recipes with images, versions, logs, limits, remediation mappings, provisioning hooks, secure artifact handling, and traceable data export.
  • Debug complex production issues across hardware, firmware, kernels, services, networking, power, thermals, boot, provisioning, manufacturing, testing, and cloud services.
  • Partner with hardware, firmware, security, networking, infrastructure, manufacturing, operations, and external engineering teams to define software contracts and resolve issues.
  • Produce architecture notes, runbooks, validation records, and decision documents.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience, or exceptional accomplishments demonstrating equivalent expertise, in system software, platform software, hardware diagnostics, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong programming skills in C, C++, Rust, or similar systems languages, with experience building reliable software for real hardware.
  • Familiarity with shell and Python scripting for automation systems.
  • Familiarity with Linux-based hardware platforms, OpenBMC, Redfish, firmware update systems, kernel drivers, and fleet management software.
  • Experience debugging live hardware using logs, packet captures, firmware traces, bus captures, lab hosts, BMC journals, Linux tooling, and controlled experiments.
  • Experience with hardware bring-up, manufacturing or qualification testing, system diagnostics, release validation, or deployment of high-performance compute, accelerator, server, networking, storage, or embedded platforms.
  • Ability to work across software, firmware, hardware, manufacturing, and operations boundaries and convert ambiguous problems into requirements, designs, tests, and decisions.
  • Experience working with external vendors, manufacturing partners, or partner engineering teams to define deliverables, review technical work, and resolve issues.
  • Familiarity with platform security topics such as secure boot, firmware signing, device provisioning, attestation, certificate handling, trusted update flows, or access-control design is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid position in San Francisco, California with three days per week onsite.
  • Relocation assistance is available.
OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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