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Operating Systems Engineer, Connectivity & Networking | Consumer Devices

OpenAI· Consumer Devices
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San Francisco$230k - $385k + equityFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

OpenAI Consumer Devices seeking an OS Engineer focused on connectivity and networking to design, develop, and maintain OS capabilities enabling reliable, secure, and efficient communication across OpenAI products and systems.

Responsibilities

  • Build connectivity foundations: Design, implement, and maintain OS services, frameworks, and APIs for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and IP networking.
  • Develop reusable network capabilities: Build connection management, network configuration and selection, service discovery, and routing capabilities.
  • Enable secure communication: Develop network services and policies for secure communication, traffic management, and isolation across varied network environments.
  • Resolve issues across the stack: Investigate correctness, concurrency, interoperability, and reliability issues across OS components, protocol stacks, and application interfaces.
  • Improve performance and efficiency: Use tracing, profiling, and repeatable measurements to improve latency, throughput, resource use, and power efficiency.
  • Validate real-world reliability: Build diagnostic tools, representative workloads, and automated tests to validate interoperability and failure recovery across changing network and operating conditions, measure reliability improvements, and protect gains with regression coverage.
  • Deliver maintainable product capabilities: Partner with hardware, firmware, security, platform, and application engineers to translate system requirements into shipped capabilities and clear, maintainable interfaces for integration and troubleshooting.

Qualifications

  • Substantial hands-on experience developing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionality in operating-system frameworks, system services, or connectivity middleware.
  • Strong understanding of IP networking, including IPv4/IPv6, TCP/UDP, DNS, DHCP, routing, and socket behavior, with practical experience implementing and debugging networked systems.
  • Experience implementing advanced networking capabilities in one or more areas such as routing and network policy, VPNs and tunneling, traffic management, or network isolation.
  • Experience designing and maintaining platform APIs and the services behind them, including connection lifecycle management and integration with other OS components.
  • Proficiency in C++ for systems development, including concurrent programming, memory ownership, and resource lifetime management.
  • Strong understanding of asynchronous systems, interprocess communication, and failure handling.
  • Experience diagnosing complex connectivity issues using system traces, protocol captures, logs, and structured debugging.
  • Ability to work across disciplines, make sound technical tradeoffs, and carry solutions from investigation through implementation and validation.

Skills

Required:Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionalityIP networkingAdvanced networking capabilitiesPlatform APIs and servicesC++ systems developmentAsynchronous systems and IPCDiagnostics and debuggingCross-disciplinary collaboration
Nice to have:Rust (preferred)

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 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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