AI Silicon Bringup Systems Engineer

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 266,000 - 445,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Systems Software Engineer for Silicon Bringup in San Francisco. You will define how software exercises and validates compute, memory, interconnect, and I/O subsystems, then build the diagnostics, automation, and observability needed to bring new AI silicon to production‑like workloads.

The role sits at the center of silicon, firmware, platform, systems, and workload teams. You will translate architecture specs into measurable criteria, drive cross‑functional debug, and

Qualifications

• Experience bringing up complex silicon, accelerators, servers, or other hardware–software systems.
• Understand computer architecture and subsystems behavior.
• Strong debugging across firmware, drivers, OS, and hardware interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to end-to-end software bringup and validation strategy for new silicon and first‑party systems.
• Define software-driven test coverage for compute, memory, interconnect, I/O and system interactions.
• Build diagnostics, test automation, telemetry, and regression infrastructure for rapid issue isolation.
• Lead bringup from silicon arrival through board and system integration and model execution.
• Design stress tests to characterize reliability and performance across workloads.

Skills

C

C++

Rust

Python

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Systems Software Engineer for Silicon Bringup in San Francisco. You will define how software exercises and validates compute, memory, interconnect, and I/O subsystems, then build the diagnostics, automation, and observability needed to bring new AI silicon to production‑like workloads.

The role sits at the center of silicon, firmware, platform, systems, and workload teams. You will translate architecture specs into measurable criteria, drive cross‑functional debug, and