Operating Systems Engineer, Connectivity & Networking | Consumer Devices

Details

OpenAI Consumer Devices is building the next generation of products that bring powerful AI into people’s everyday lives. The team works across systems software and product engineering to build reliable consumer devices and the platforms behind them, including connectivity and networking foundations for communication across OpenAI products and systems.

As an Operating Systems Engineer focused on connectivity and networking, you will design, develop, and maintain OS capabilities that enable reliable, secure, and efficient communication across OpenAI products and systems. Your work will span Wi-Fi and Bluetooth frameworks, IP networking, and advanced network services and policy. You will develop OS services, libraries, and interfaces for a broad range of connectivity needs, make design decisions across software boundaries, and carry solutions through development, integration, and production.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain OS services, frameworks, and APIs for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and IP networking.
• Build connection management, network configuration and selection, service discovery, and routing capabilities.
• Develop network services and policies for secure communication, traffic management, and isolation across varied network environments.
• Investigate correctness, concurrency, interoperability, and reliability issues across OS components, protocol stacks, and application interfaces.
• Use tracing, profiling, and repeatable measurements to improve latency, throughput, resource use, and power efficiency.
• Build diagnostic tools, representative workloads, and automated tests to validate interoperability and failure recovery across changing network and operating conditions.
• Measure reliability improvements and protect gains with regression coverage.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, security, platform, and application engineers to translate system requirements into shipped capabilities and maintainable interfaces.

Requirements

• Substantial hands-on experience developing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionality in operating-system frameworks, system services, or connectivity middleware.
• Strong understanding of IP networking, including IPv4/IPv6, TCP/UDP, DNS, DHCP, routing, and socket behavior, with practical experience implementing and debugging networked systems.
• Experience implementing advanced networking capabilities such as routing and network policy, VPNs and tunneling, traffic management, or network isolation.
• Experience designing and maintaining platform APIs and the services behind them, including connection lifecycle management and integration with other OS components.
• Proficiency in C++ for systems development, including concurrent programming, memory ownership, and resource lifetime management.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous systems, interprocess communication, and failure handling.
• Experience diagnosing complex connectivity issues using system traces, protocol captures, logs, and structured debugging.
• Ability to work across disciplines, make sound technical tradeoffs, and carry solutions from investigation through implementation and validation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering connectivity capabilities in shipped products and resolving interoperability issues across software stacks and third-party implementations.
• Depth in transport protocols and performance, including QUIC, congestion control, multi-path networking, or operation across multiple network interfaces.
• Experience with network virtualization, proxies, NAT, firewalls, or policy enforcement within an operating system.
• Experience improving connectivity performance or power consumption using repeatable measurements and regression coverage.
• Understanding of security and privacy considerations in connectivity services, including authentication, permissions, and credential handling.
• Proficiency in Rust for systems programming.
• Ability to take ownership of complete solutions and follow problems across framework, service, and underlying stack boundaries.
• Experience using experiments and measurements to guide technical decisions.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of legally protected characteristics. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law. Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Base pay of $230,000–$385,000 per year.
• Equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and benefits.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for health, dependent care, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, company holidays, office closures, and paid sick or safe time as required by law.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.