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Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure

OpenAI· Scaling
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$310k - $460kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and maintaining the software infrastructure used to manufacture, qualify, and deliver OpenAI hardware. Involves end-to-end production data capture, processing, visualization, and automation across multiple vendors and sites.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain the software infrastructure for manufacturing process execution and data export.
  • Own integration across internal customers and vendor systems and processes.
  • Build and maintain the CI, release, and delivery pipeline of tooling to external partners.
  • Build and maintain internal systems to ingest, process, deliver, and visualize critical data for internal teams and systems.
  • Build system health monitoring, telemetry, remote diagnostics, and recovery paths that make manufacturing failures traceable and actionable.
  • Develop automation frameworks and monitoring for board bring-up, rack bring-up, qualification, manufacturing readiness, deployment readiness, and long-term reliability.
  • Package engineering releases into manufacturing-ready software recipes: images, versions, logs, limits, remediation mapping, provisioning hooks, secure artifact handling, and traceable data export.
  • Debug complex production issues spanning hardware, firmware, kernel, services, networking, power, thermals, boot, provisioning, manufacturing, test, and cloud services.
  • Partner with hardware, firmware, security, networking, infrastructure, manufacturing, operations, and external engineering teams to define software contracts, unblock bring-up, and drive issues to closure.
  • Produce durable architecture notes, runbooks, validation records, and decision documents that help OpenAI and partner teams reproduce, operate, and improve the platform.

Qualifications

  • 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 scripting in shell and python as used in automation systems.
  • Familiarity with Linux-based hardware platforms, OpenBMC, Redfish, firmware update systems, kernel drivers, and fleet management software.
  • Demonstrated ability to debug live hardware using logs, packet captures, firmware traces, bus captures, lab hosts, BMC journals, Linux tooling, and carefully 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 reason across software, firmware, hardware, manufacturing, and operations boundaries, and to turn ambiguous problems into clear requirements, designs, tests, and decisions.
  • Proven track record working with external vendors, manufacturing partners, or partner engineering teams to define deliverables, review technical work, and drive issues to closure.
  • Familiarity with platform security topics such as secure boot, firmware signing, device provisioning, attestation, certificate handling, trusted update flows, or access-control design is a plus.

Skills

Required:C, C++, RustShell and Python scriptingLinux-based hardware platforms, OpenBMC, Redfish, firmware update systemsHardware bring-up and manufacturing/debug
Nice to have:System security topics

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 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 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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