About this role
OpenAI has a vacancy for the role of Systems Software Engineer, BMC & Management Plane in San Francisco. This is a full-time position. The listing was posted on May 7, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
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ABOUT THE TEAM
OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're seeking a Systems Software Engineer to join our First-Party Hardware team, with a focus on BMC software and embedded Linux services for server and accelerator manageability. You will personally design, build, integrate, and validate software that monitors hardware health, exposes inventory and telemetry, controls power, and manages firmware updates and recovery across OpenAI’s first-party AI hardware systems.
You will work across BMC, Linux, firmware interfaces, automation infrastructure, boot and recovery, hardware diagnostics, telemetry, host and platform drivers, network software interfaces, and manufacturing and fleet readiness.