Embedded Software Engineer

Openai

San Francisco, CA

Full Time

Senior

23 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

We're hiring an embedded software engineer to build reliable, high-performance systems on custom hardware. You'll own low-level bring-up, write production C/C++ code, and work closely with hardware teams to debug, optimize, and ship. This role spans early prototyping through product launch and requires deep experience with embedded platforms, toolchains, and real-world constraints like memory, power, and latency.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and debug software for embedded devices
Contribute to defining software requirements, interfaces, and test plans
Bring up and debug new boards
Analyze performance, memory, and power profiles and implement optimizations
Investigate field issues, perform root-cause analysis, and deliver robust fixes
Foster good software engineering practices

Requirements

10+ years of professional experience shipping embedded systems
Proficiency in C and C++
Familiarity with embedded toolchains, operating systems, and debugging tools
Experience with both rapid prototyping and scalable product development

Nice to Have

Experience with Zephyr RTOS
Experience with networking/wireless stacks (BLE, Wi-Fi)
Experience with robotic system bring-up
Experience with Linux kernel development

Working at Openai

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

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