Host Systems Software Engineer

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Host Systems Software Engineer San Francisco, California, United States About the Team OpenAI's Hardware organization develops custom silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team works across hardware, systems architecture, and software to build infrastructure that enables high-performance, AI-native computing at scale. In close partnership with research, software, and external vendors, we bring up new platforms, integrate emerging technologies, and develop the host-side systems software needed to make these systems performant, reliable, and production-ready. About the Role We're looking for an experienced systems software engineer to help define and build the host software stack for our custom next-generation AI systems. You will work close to the hardware on performance-critical software, including Linux kernel drivers, high-throughput I/O paths, and system-scale networking and RDMA. This role spans architecture, implementation, platform bring-up, debugging, and performance optimization. You will work across hardware and software boundaries to make new systems usable end to end, from low-level device interfaces through userspace tooling and production validation. In this role you will: - Design, implement, and debug host-side systems software for AI infrastructure, including Linux kernel drivers and supporting userspace components. - Build and optimize software paths for high-throughput, low-latency communication, including RDMA and related networking functionality. - Develop software around PCIe, DMA, NICs, accelerators, memory movement, and device interaction. - Bring up new hardware platforms and diagnose complex issues across kernel, firmware, networking, and hardware boundaries. - Build tooling for integration, testing, diagnostics, observability, qualification, and performance characterization. - Collaborate with

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