Connectivity OS Engineer - Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & Networking

AI Chopping Block; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI Consumer Devices seeks an Operating Systems Engineer focused on connectivity and networking to design, develop, and maintain OS capabilities enabling reliable, secure communication across OpenAI products. You will work across Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, IP networking, and network services.

Collaborate with hardware, firmware, security, and platform engineers to translate requirements into shipped capabilities, APIs, and maintainable interfaces.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth functionality in OS frameworks or connectivity middleware.
• Strong understanding of IP networking (IPv4/IPv6, TCP/UDP, DNS, DHCP, routing, sockets).
• Experience implementing advanced networking capabilities (routing, VPNs, traffic management, network isolation).
• Experience designing and maintaining platform APIs and services behind them (connection lifecycle management).
• Proficiency in C++ for systems development, including concurrency and memory management.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous systems, IPC, and failure handling.
• Experience diagnosing complex connectivity issues using traces, logs, and debugging tools.

Responsibilities

• Build connectivity foundations: design and maintain OS services and APIs for Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, and IP networking.
• Develop reusable network capabilities: connection management, configuration, routing, service discovery.
• Enable secure communication: network services and policies for security and isolation.
• Investigate issues across OS components, protocol stacks, and application interfaces.
• Improve performance and efficiency via tracing and profiling.
• Validate reliability with tests and representative workloads across network conditions.
• Deliver maintainable capabilities: collaborate with hardware, firmware, security, and platform teams.

Skills

WiFi/Bluetooth

IP networking

C++ systems

Async design

Diagnostics tracing

APIs & services

Concurrency

Job description

OpenAI Consumer Devices seeks an Operating Systems Engineer focused on connectivity and networking to design, develop, and maintain OS capabilities enabling reliable, secure communication across OpenAI products. You will work across Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, IP networking, and network services.

Collaborate with hardware, firmware, security, and platform engineers to translate requirements into shipped capabilities, APIs, and maintainable interfaces.