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OpenAI Consumer Devices is building next-generation products that bring powerful AI into everyday lives. The team combines researchers, engineers, designers, and operators focused on creating useful, intuitive, and responsible technology at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI.
As an Operating Systems Engineer focused on connectivity and networking, you will design, develop, and maintain OS capabilities that enable reliable, secure, and efficient communication across OpenAI products and systems. Your work spans Wi-Fi and Bluetooth frameworks, IP networking, and advanced network services and policy.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, implement, and maintain OS services, frameworks, and APIs for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and IP networking
- Build connection management, network configuration and selection, service discovery, and routing capabilities
- Develop network services and policies for secure communication, traffic management, and isolation across varied network environments
- Investigate correctness, concurrency, interoperability, and reliability issues across OS components, protocol stacks, and application interfaces
- Use tracing, profiling, and repeatable measurements to improve latency, throughput, resource use, and power efficiency
- Build diagnostic tools, representative workloads, and automated tests to validate interoperability and failure recovery across changing network conditions
- Partner with hardware, firmware, security, platform, and application engineers to translate system requirements into shipped capabilities and clear interfaces
You will carry solutions through development, integration, and production, making design decisions across software boundaries and resolving issues across the full stack.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Substantial hands-on experience developing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionality in operating-system frameworks, system services, or connectivity middleware
- Strong understanding of IP networking (IPv4/IPv6, TCP/UDP, DNS, DHCP, routing, socket behavior) with practical experience implementing and debugging networked systems
- Experience implementing advanced networking capabilities in areas such as routing and network policy, VPNs and tunneling, traffic management, or network isolation
- Experience designing and maintaining platform APIs and services, including connection lifecycle management and OS component integration
- Proficiency in C++ for systems development, including concurrent programming, memory ownership, and resource lifetime management
- Strong understanding of asynchronous systems, interprocess communication, and failure handling
- Experience diagnosing complex connectivity issues using system traces, protocol captures, logs, and structured debugging
- Ability to work across disciplines, make sound technical tradeoffs, and carry solutions from investigation through implementation and validation
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Delivered connectivity capabilities in shipped products and resolved interoperability issues across software stacks and third-party implementations
- Depth in transport protocols and performance (QUIC, congestion control, multi-path networking, multiple network interfaces)
- Experience with network virtualization, proxies, NAT, firewalls, or policy enforcement within an operating system
- Improved connectivity performance or power consumption with repeatable measurements and regression coverage
- Understanding of security and privacy considerations in connectivity services (authentication, permissions, credential handling)
- Proficiency in Rust for systems programming
- Ownership of complete solutions across framework, service, and underlying stack boundaries
- Use of experiments and measurements to challenge assumptions and guide technical decisions
- Ability to work constructively across disciplines and make careful tradeoffs among functionality, security, reliability, performance, power, and maintainability
