Base Salary
$207k - $365k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain unified test frameworks for device software across unit, integration, system, and end-to-end testing.
- Integrate test suites with Buildkite and enforce staging and production promotion criteria, regression filing, artifact publication, and release-note traceability.
- Design and orchestrate hardware-in-the-loop labs, including racks, power and networking systems, automated flashing, provisioning, and telemetry capture.
- Build automation and developer tools for API and firmware validation, result triage, log capture, replayable bug reports, and debugging workflows.
- Create quality dashboards and alerts, detect and quarantine flaky tests, drive root-cause analysis, and track release-health metrics.
- Enable QA vendor technicians with repeatable procedures and tooling while reviewing reports and coordinating rig maintenance and repairs.
- Collaborate with embedded, systems software, and release infrastructure teams on testability, signing, staged rollouts, and rollback or forward strategies.
Requirements
- Deep experience building software quality, test automation, or developer tooling systems for hardware products shipped at scale.
- Proficiency in Python, C, C++, or Rust.
- Strong Linux fundamentals, including processes, networking, storage, and udev/systemd.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines, artifact management systems, and reproducible or isolated test environments.
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating hardware-in-the-loop labs and device orchestration systems at scale.
- Fluency with failure triage, flake detection and quarantine, and signal-quality guardrails.
- Strong debugging skills across software, firmware, devices, and release infrastructure.
- Ability to collaborate across teams and improve scalable, reliable engineering and release processes.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model requiring four days in the San Francisco office per week.
- Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.
About OpenAI
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.