Systems Software Engineer – Hardware Management Plane

OpenAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a System Software Engineer for its First-Party Hardware team in San Francisco. You will design, build, validate, and own low-level system software for AI hardware manageability, covering BMC, BIOS/UEFI, and telemetry interfaces while collaborating across lab automation and manufacturing readiness.

The role emphasizes hands-on work, high ownership, and driving partner integrations through proof of implementation, builds, tests, and validation artifacts.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining low-level system software for hardware manageability.
• Strong debugging across hardware and software boundaries.
• Familiarity with lab automation and validation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain low-level firmware and system software for first-party AI hardware manageability, including BMC software, Redfish services, gNMI telemetry, firmware update and recovery flows, BIOS/UEFI interactions, platform drivers, and hardware diagnostics.

Skills

Low-level firmware

System software

Hardware diagnostics

Automation infra

Tools

BMC

Redfish

gNMI

BIOS/UEFI

Linux

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a System Software Engineer for its First-Party Hardware team in San Francisco. You will design, build, validate, and own low-level system software for AI hardware manageability, covering BMC, BIOS/UEFI, and telemetry interfaces while collaborating across lab automation and manufacturing readiness.

The role emphasizes hands-on work, high ownership, and driving partner integrations through proof of implementation, builds, tests, and validation artifacts.