# Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure at OpenAI

- Company: OpenAI
- What the company does: Backed by Greylock, Insight and Khosla.
- Company website: https://openai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $310K to $460K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/3b08148d-085e-4835-9934-1b7f60e0fdce
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openai-software-engineer-manufacturing-infrastructure/

## About the role

We're seeking a Software Engineer to join our First-Party Hardware team. In this role, you will design, build, integrate, and validate the software used to manufacture, qualify, and deliver our hardware from the factory.

## What they're looking for

- 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 scripting in languages such as shell and python as used in automation systems
- Familiarity with Linux-based hardware platforms, OpenBMC, Redfish, firmware update systems, kernel drivers, and fleet management software
- Demonstrated ability to debug live hardware using logs, packet captures, firmware traces, bus captures, lab hosts, BMC journals, Linux tooling, and carefully 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

Tags: Scaling