Release Engineer, Consumer Products

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About the team

The Release Engineer team is responsible for building and maintaining the systems that power software delivery — from CI/CD pipelines and artifact management to release automation and fleet telemetry. The team ensures software across bootloaders, firmware, operating systems, and cloud services is built reproducibly, validated rigorously, and released safely at scale.

About the role

As a Release Engineer, you will design, build, and operate release infrastructure that enables reliable, secure, and traceable software delivery across complex multi-component systems. You will partner closely with embedded, cloud, and QA teams to ensure that every build — from development to OTA deployment — is fast, verifiable, and production-ready. Engineers in this role take pride in automation, build reproducibility, and system reliability and build the connective tissue that allows hardware and software to ship together seamlessly.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. The team uses a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offers relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines for multi-component builds (bootloader, firmware, OS images, backend, companion apps) using hermetic toolchains.
• Define versioning and branching strategies; automate promotions, changelogs, and artifact retention.
• Integrate unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test results; quarantine flaky tests, auto-bisect failures, and block unsafe promotions.
• Build A/B OTA update flows with verity and health checks; run staged rollouts and canaries; implement safe rollback and roll-forward strategies.
• Implement code signing for binaries and firmware, generate SBOMs, run vulnerability scanning, and attach build attestations and provenance.
• Manage dashboards and alerts for build health, promotion latency, failure rates, and fleet update telemetry.

Requirements / Skills

• Experience building and operating build and release systems for consumer devices, robotics, mobile, or embedded products.
• Proficient in scripting and automation languages such as Python or Bash.
• Strong Linux user-space fundamentals.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or Buildkite, artifact registries, and reproducible toolchains.
• Experience managing vendor BSPs and toolchains.
• Experience delivering secure OTA or image updates with staged rollouts at scale.
• Familiarity with key management and supply-chain hardening.
• Track record of metrics-driven improvement and continuous optimization.

Benefits

• Base pay (example tier shown): $325,000 (compensation may vary by location, experience, and other factors). In addition to salary, total compensation includes equity and potential performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave, paid medical and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
• 13+ paid company holidays and additional company office closures.
• Mental health and wellness support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits (charitable donation matching, wellness stipends).

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 provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law.