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System Performance Engineer, Consumer Devices

OpenAI· Consumer Devices
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$347k - $385k + equityFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

OpenAI seeks a System Performance Engineer to profile, benchmark, and optimize performance across embedded hardware products, defining KPIs, building tooling, and driving optimizations from lab characterization to product launch and real-world usage.

Responsibilities

  • Develop system performance benchmarks, methodologies, and policies to evaluate end-to-end product behavior.
  • Profile and analyze performance across key product use cases and workloads using custom and industry-standard profiling tools.
  • Partner closely with engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and drive performance optimizations across the software stack.
  • Define high-level product KPIs and establish measurement frameworks to measure launch readiness and monitor performance throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Measure, report, and track metrics including system responsiveness, memory utilization, cold boot performance, long-term stability, and behavior under constrained conditions such as thermal limits and low battery states.
  • Investigate field performance regressions and drive issues to resolution using data-driven analysis.

Qualifications

  • Deep experience shipping embedded or high-performance systems on Linux, Android, or iOS devices.
  • Strong proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Rust, with exceptional operating systems fundamentals, including process management, IPC, drivers, interrupts, power management, media frameworks, graphics, filesystems, and networking.
  • A proven track record shipping real-time systems operating under tight latency, power, and memory constraints.
  • Expertise with profiling and debugging tools such as Perfetto, GDB, LLDB, perf, ftrace, or Instruments.
  • Experience building instrumentation, analytics, and performance tuning frameworks.

Skills

Required:Embedded/high-performance systemsProgramming languagesOperating systems fundamentalsProfiling and debugging toolsInstrumentation and analytics

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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