# Systems Software Engineer, Silicon Bringup **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $266K - $445K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/d1121575-a1a7-47c9-97e6-56c70f441143?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_6990624d-69a ## Description ## Compensation The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $266K – $445K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and the following benefits. Benefits include: - Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts - Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) - 401(k) retirement plan with employer match - Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) - Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees - 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time - Mental health and wellness support - Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage - Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth - Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible - Relocation support for eligible employees - Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends ## About the Team OpenAI's Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. ## About the Role You will work on the systems software strategy and execution that brings new AI silicon from first power-on to a fully integrated system running production-representative models at expected functionality and performance. You will define how software exercises and validates compute, memory, interconnect, and I/O subsystems, then build the diagnostics, automation, and observability needed to find issues quickly. ## Responsibilities - Contribute to the end-to-end software bringup and validation strategy for new silicon and first-party systems. - Define software-driven test coverage across compute, memory, interconnect, I/O, and their system-level interactions. - Build diagnostics, test automation, telemetry, and regression infrastructure that accelerate first-silicon learning and issue isolation. - Lead bringup from initial silicon arrival through board and system integration, docking, runtime enablement, and model execution. - Design stress tests that characterize reliability, performance, and stability across workloads and operating conditions. - Translate architecture specifications and performance models into measurable acceptance criteria, coverage goals, and pass/fail signals. - Debug complex hardware-software failures, drive root-cause analysis, and coordinate fixes across silicon, firmware, electrical, platform, and workload teams. - Validate that integrated systems deliver expected functionality and model performance, and turn bringup learnings into reusable infrastructure for future generations. ## Requirements - Strong systems programming experience in C, C++, Rust, Python, or comparable low-level environments. - Experience bringing up or validating complex silicon, accelerators, servers, or other hardware-software systems. - Understanding of computer architecture and the behavior of compute, memory, interconnect, and I/O subsystems. - Low-level debugging skills across firmware, drivers, operating systems, and hardware interfaces. - Ability to create a rigorous test strategy, reason about coverage gaps, and build scalable automation and observability. - Experience with performance characterization, stress testing, reliability testing, or production readiness. - Clear communication across disciplines and ability to drive ambiguous, high-stakes technical work from plan through closure. - Passion for building durable tools and processes that make subsequent bringup cycles faster and more predictable. ## Skills ### Required - C - C++ - Rust - Python - systems programming - computer architecture - low-level debugging ### Nice to have - performance characterization - stress testing - reliability testing - production readiness --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/d1121575-a1a7-47c9-97e6-56c70f441143?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)