Embedded Software Engineer

We're hiring an embedded software engineer to build reliable, high-performance systems on custom hardware. You’ll own low-level bring-up, write production C/C++ code, and work closely with hardware teams to debug, optimize, and ship. This role spans early prototyping through product launch and requires deep experience with embedded platforms, toolchains, and real-world constraints like memory, power, and latency.

In this role, you will:

• Design, implement, and debug software for embedded devices

• Contribute to defining software requirements, interfaces, and test plans

• Bring up and debug new boards

• Analyze performance, memory, and power profiles and implement optimizations

• Investigate field issues, perform root-cause analysis, and deliver robust fixes

• Foster good software engineering practices

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 10+ years of professional experience shipping embedded systems

• Proficiency in C and C++

• Familiarity with embedded toolchains, operating systems, and debugging tools

• Experience with both rapid prototyping and scalable product development
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Zephyr RTOS

• Experience with networking/wireless stacks (BLE, Wi-Fi)

• Experience with robotic system bring-up

• Experience with Linux kernel development

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$325K – $490K + Offers Equity