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Systems Integration Engineer, Build Systems | Consumer Devices

OpenAI· Consumer Devices
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San Francisco$207k - $365k + equityFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineer to evolve OpenAI’s Consumer Products build and continuous integration systems, focusing on Bazel-based builds, Buildkite pipelines, test coverage, remote caching/execution, and tooling to improve developer productivity and reliability for consumer device software.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve Bazel and yocto-based build and test workflows in a polyrepo environment
  • Design and maintain Starlark rules, macros, toolchains, and integrations that make builds hermetic, reproducible, and easy for teams to adopt
  • Improve CI performance and reliability across Buildkite pipelines, including queue time, build time, cache hit rates, retry behavior, and flake isolation
  • Build systems that reduce unnecessary CI work through affected-target detection, dependency graph analysis, test selection, caching, batching, and smarter scheduling
  • Unify local and CI development workflows so engineers can reproduce CI behavior, debug build failures, and iterate quickly without learning every detail of the build stack
  • Operate and optimize build infrastructure across Docker/OCI images, Kubernetes-based runners, cloud resources, and remote cache/execution systems
  • Instrument build and CI systems with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and analytics so we can measure speed, reliability, cost, and developer impact
  • Partner directly with users to understand pain points, onboard projects, debug hard build issues, and remove systemic bottlenecks
  • Use modern AI tools to pioneer novel CI failure analysis, flaky test debugging, PR triage, automated remediation, and developer-facing information
  • Own the reliability of the systems you build, including participating in an on-call rotation for critical developer and factory infrastructure

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of engineering experience, including significant experience building infrastructure and tooling for developers
  • Hands-on experience with Bazel, Buck, Gradle, or similar build systems, and understand the trade offs of hermetic builds, dependency graphs, caching, sandboxing, and remote execution
  • Have built CI systems at scale, especially in environments where build time, queue time, test flakiness, and developer trust materially affect engineering velocity

Skills

Required:BazelYoctoStarlarkBuildkiteDocker / OCIKubernetes
Nice to have:Python/Go/TypeScript/Rust/C++

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 to fuel your professional growth
  • Daily meals in our 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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