System Performance Engineer, Consumer Devices

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a System Performance Engineer on OpenAI's Consumer Devices team, you will play a critical role in ensuring AI-powered hardware products deliver responsive, efficient, and reliable user experiences by defining performance standards and driving optimizations from lab to real-world usage.
• You will develop performance benchmarks, profile system behavior across OS, vision, graphics, and applications, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize the full software stack under tight latency, power, and memory constraints.
• You will join a multidisciplinary team of experts in embedded systems, machine learning, hardware, design, and product engineering building next-generation AI-integrated consumer devices that push the frontier of intelligent technology.
• In this role, you will deepen your expertise in embedded performance engineering, shape product KPIs and measurement frameworks, and gain end-to-end ownership of performance lifecycle management from characterization to field regression resolution.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience shipping embedded or high-performance systems on Linux, Android, or iOS devices
• Strong proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Rust with exceptional operating systems fundamentals including process management, IPC, drivers, interrupts, power management, media frameworks, graphics, filesystems, and networking
• Proven track record shipping real-time systems operating under tight latency, power, and memory constraints
• Expertise with profiling and debugging tools such as Perfetto, GDB, LLDB, perf, ftrace, or Instruments
• Experience building instrumentation, analytics, and performance tuning frameworks

🏖️ Benefits

• Hybrid work model: four days per week in the office, one day remote
• Relocation assistance available for new hires
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI-powered consumer devices at the intersection of hardware and intelligent software
• Exposure to cross-functional collaboration across embedded software, systems, vision, audio, graphics, applications, and hardware teams
• Commitment to safety, inclusivity, and equitable access to AI benefits as part of OpenAI's mission-driven culture

Skills & Technologies

Python

Rust

Linux

iOS

Android

Remote

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About OpenAI, Inc.

OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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