# Operating Systems Engineer | Consumer Devices

About the Team The Consumer Devices team at OpenAI builds end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world. We work at the intersection of custom silicon, embedded systems, operating systems, and cloud services to deliver reliable, production-ready devices at scale. About the role We are looking for an Operating Systems Engineer to build and harden the OS foundations for OpenAI products. We are especially interested in experienced, passionate, and innovative operating systems developers who thrive on building foundational platform software and solving hard problems in security, privacy, performance, power, and reliability. You will work across the OS kernel, core OS services, security and privacy primitives, performance and power, and the frameworks that connect applications and UI to the system. This role emphasizes deep debugging and systems ownership from development through production. You will collaborate closely with embedded, firmware, hardware, application, and product engineering teams. Experience with hardware bring-up is a plus, but not required. What you will do Work on end-to-end OS capabilities spanning the OS kernel, userspace services,

- **Id**: 215042
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openai-operating-systems-engineer-consumer-devices>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-26T17:25:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-26
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T12:21:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 79
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8476
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Conversational AI, Generative Video, Code Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 2
- **Name**: OpenAI
- **Domain**: openai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/openai>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 225
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.782
- **Repost share**: 0.009
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 51
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 230000
- **Max**: 342000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 342000

## Technologies

- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **eBPF** — Optional: yes
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes
- **Tracing** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 79

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T08:49:16Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 262 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 262

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.456
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 79
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 342000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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