Release Engineer — Consumer Devices, OTA & CI/CD

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 293,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model (4 days in office)

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Release Engineer in San Francisco to design, build, and operate release infrastructure enabling reliable, secure software delivery across multi-component systems. You will partner with embedded, cloud, and QA teams to ensure builds—from development to OTA deployment—are fast, verifiable, and production-ready.

The role emphasizes automation, reproducibility, and system reliability, with a hybrid work model in a four-days-in-office setup and relocation assistance for new hires.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating build/release systems for embedded devices or consumer hardware.
• Proficient in Python or Bash scripting.
• Strong Linux user-space fundamentals.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or Buildkite and artifact registries.
• Experience managing vendor BSPs and toolchains.
• Delivered secure OTA or image updates with staged rollouts at scale.
• Familiar with key management and supply-chain hardening.
• Track record of metrics-driven improvement and continuous optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines for multi-component builds (bootloader, firmware, OS images, backend, companion apps) using hermetic toolchains.
• Define versioning and branching strategies; automate promotions, changelogs, and artifact retention.
• Integrate unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test results; quarantine flaky tests, auto-bisect failures, and block unsafe promotions.
• Build A/B OTA update flows with verity and health checks; run staged rollouts and canaries; implement safe rollback and roll-forward strategies.
• Implement code signing for binaries and firmware, generate SBOMs, run vulnerability scanning, and attach build attestations and provenance.
• Manage dashboards and alerts for build health, promotion latency, failure rates, and fleet update telemetry.

Skills

Linux fundamentals

Scripting (Python/Bash)

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

Release engineering

Telemetry and metrics

Tools

GitHub Actions

Buildkite

Artifact registries

Toolchains

Code signing

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Release Engineer in San Francisco to design, build, and operate release infrastructure enabling reliable, secure software delivery across multi-component systems. You will partner with embedded, cloud, and QA teams to ensure builds—from development to OTA deployment—are fast, verifiable, and production-ready.

The role emphasizes automation, reproducibility, and system reliability, with a hybrid work model in a four-days-in-office setup and relocation assistance for new hires.