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OpenAI24 days ago

Operating Systems Engineer | Consumer Devices

🇺🇸USSan Francisco, USsenior

Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary

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This role is for an experienced systems engineer to build foundational OS software, kernel components, and security primitives for consumer hardware. Ideal candidates possess deep C/C++ systems p

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Standard role matching posting requirements.

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Standard role matching posting requirements.

Role Responsibilities

  • 1Work on end-to-end OS capabilities spanning the OS kernel, userspace services, application frameworks, and UI toolkits.
  • 2Develop, integrate, and maintain OS components including scheduling, memory management, filesystems, drivers, and IPC/RPC mechanisms.
  • 3Build and maintain core OS services and daemons such as init, service management, networking primitives, and crash handling.
  • 4Design and implement security and privacy mechanisms including sandboxing, secure storage, and least-privilege service design.
  • 5Establish performance and power disciplines through profiling, instrumentation, and regression detection for boot time and latency.
  • 6Provide stable, well-documented platform interfaces for application and UI frameworks.

Skills Matrix

Must-Have Skills

7 required
Systems Programming
General Competency
C++
Linux
Operating Systems(OS)
Kernel Development
Security Fundamentals

Nice-to-Have Skills

5 preferred
Rust
OS Security Hardening
eBPF
Performance Optimization
Power Optimization
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