OpenAI

Release Engineer, Consumer Products

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8 months ago

Base Salary

$293k - $325k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate CI/CD pipelines for multi-component builds using hermetic toolchains.
  • Define versioning and branching strategies and automate promotions, changelogs, and artifact retention.
  • Integrate unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop test results; quarantine flaky tests, auto-bisect failures, and block unsafe promotions.
  • Build A/B OTA update flows with verity and health checks, including staged rollouts, canaries, safe rollback, and roll-forward strategies.
  • Implement code signing for binaries and firmware, generate SBOMs, run vulnerability scanning, and attach build attestations and provenance.
  • Manage dashboards and alerts for build health, promotion latency, failure rates, and fleet update telemetry.

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating build and release systems for consumer devices, robotics, mobile, or embedded products.
  • Proficiency in scripting and automation languages such as Python or Bash.
  • Strong Linux user-space fundamentals.
  • Experience with GitHub Actions or Buildkite, artifact registries, and reproducible toolchains.
  • Experience managing vendor BSPs and toolchains.
  • Experience delivering secure OTA or image updates with staged rollouts at scale.
  • Familiarity with key management and supply-chain hardening.
  • A track record of metrics-driven improvement and continuous optimization.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring four days in the San Francisco office per week
  • Relocation assistance is offered to new employees

Tech Stack

BashBuildkiteGitHub ActionsLinuxPython
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About OpenAI

1,001-5,000 employees

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.