# Operating Systems Engineer, Linux Kernel | Consumer Devices

About the Team OpenAI Consumer Devices is building the next generation of products that bring powerful AI into people’s everyday lives. Guided by OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, our team combines world-class researchers, engineers, designers, and operators who care deeply about creating useful, intuitive, and responsible technology. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside exceptional people on ambitious, zero-to-one challenges at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI. This is a chance to help define an entirely new category of products-and shape how people experience AI in the future. Our team works across custom silicon, embedded systems, operating systems, and cloud services to build reliable consumer devices and the platforms behind them. We connect kernel development with the broader software stack to deliver complete product capabilities. About the Role As an Operating Systems Engineer focused on the Linux kernel, you will design, develop, and maintain the kernel capabilities that underpin OpenAI’s consumer devices. You’ll bring deep expertise in one or more Linux kernel subsystems and carry solutions through the higher-level software st

- **Id**: 1096768
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openai-operating-systems-engineer-linux-kernel-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**: 2026-09-21T18:13:44Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T06:38:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6618
- **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**: 79
- **Open postings**: 199
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.829
- **Repost share**: 0.01
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 51
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 230000
- **Max**: 385000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 385000

## Technologies

- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T18:50:29Z

## 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**: 31
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.509
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:late, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 385000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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