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Operating Systems Engineer, Linux Kernel | Consumer Devices at OpenAI

Department: Consumer Devices

Compensation

$230,000 – $385,000/yr

Location
San Francisco, California
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

OpenAI is hiring an Operating Systems Engineer focused on the Linux kernel to design, develop, and maintain kernel subsystems for consumer devices. The role owns kernel and userspace interfaces, debugs system behavior, validates performance and reliability improvements, and collaborates with hardware, firmware, platform, and application engineers. Candidates need substantial hands-on Linux kernel development experience, C proficiency, and strong knowledge of concurrency, synchronization, memory ownership, and resource lifetimes.

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