Systems Software Engineer, BMC & Management Plane is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $266K - $445K. Posted on May 7, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
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…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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