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System Performance Engineer at OpenAI

Department: Consumer Devices

Compensation

$347,000 – $385,000/yr

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

Description

OpenAI is hiring a System Performance Engineer to profile, benchmark, and optimize performance across embedded hardware products. The role develops performance benchmarks and KPIs, builds profiling and instrumentation tooling, identifies software-stack bottlenecks, monitors responsiveness and resource utilization, and investigates field performance regressions. It requires expertise in embedded or high-performance systems, operating systems, and languages such as C/C++, Python, or Rust, with experience in Linux, Android, or iOS devices. The position is based in San Francisco, California, with a hybrid schedule of four office days and one remote day.

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