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# Systems Engineer, Kernel Development and Performance Engineering at OpenAI

Department: Scaling

Compensation

$266,000 – $445,000/yr

**Setup**
: Hybrid

**Location**
: San Francisco, California

**Level**
: not_specified

**Posted**
: Apr 17, 2026

## Description

OpenAI is hiring a Systems Engineer to advance kernel development, performance engineering, and hardware-software co-design for AI-native silicon and systems. The role focuses on building developer tooling and workflows, observability and diagnostics infrastructure, end-to-end kernel optimization, abstractions and automation systems, and AI-assisted optimization research. Candidates should have systems or tooling engineering experience, low-level software or performance optimization expertise, kernel or accelerator knowledge, and familiarity with AI-assisted systems or agentic workflows.

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