Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure

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Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure in USA

OpenAI
Full time
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USA
09/17/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain software infrastructure for manufacturing process execution and data export.
Integrate internal customer and vendor systems and processes.
Build and maintain CI, release, and delivery pipelines for tooling delivered to external partners.
Develop systems to ingest, process, deliver, and visualize manufacturing data.
Build monitoring, telemetry, remote diagnostics, and recovery paths for manufacturing failures.
Develop automation frameworks for board bring-up, rack bring-up, qualification, manufacturing readiness, deployment readiness, and long-term reliability.
Package engineering releases into manufacturing-ready software recipes with images, versions, logs, limits, remediation mappings, provisioning hooks, secure artifact handling, and traceable data export.
Debug complex production issues across hardware, firmware, kernels, services, networking, power, thermals, boot, provisioning, manufacturing, testing, and cloud services.
Partner with hardware, firmware, security, networking, infrastructure, manufacturing, operations, and external engineering teams to define software contracts and resolve issues.
Produce architecture notes, runbooks, validation records, and decision documents.

Requirements

7+ years of hands-on experience, or exceptional accomplishments demonstrating equivalent expertise, in system software, platform software, hardware diagnostics, and cloud infrastructure.
Strong programming skills in C, C++, Rust, or similar systems languages, with experience building reliable software for real hardware.
Familiarity with shell and Python scripting for automation systems.
Familiarity with Linux-based hardware platforms, OpenBMC, Redfish, firmware update systems, kernel drivers, and fleet management software.
Experience debugging live hardware using logs, packet captures, firmware traces, bus captures, lab hosts, BMC journals, Linux tooling, and controlled experiments.
Experience with hardware bring-up, manufacturing or qualification testing, system diagnostics, release validation, or deployment of high-performance compute, accelerator, server, networking, storage, or embedded platforms.
Ability to work across software, firmware, hardware, manufacturing, and operations boundaries and convert ambiguous problems into requirements, designs, tests, and decisions.
Experience working with external vendors, manufacturing partners, or partner engineering teams to define deliverables, review technical work, and resolve issues.
Familiarity with platform security topics such as secure boot, firmware signing, device provisioning, attestation, certificate handling, trusted update flows, or access-control design is preferred.

Benefits

Hybrid position in San Francisco, California with three days per week onsite.
Relocation assistance is available.

Salary: $310k - $460k/yr

OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests fi...

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