System Performance Engineer, Consumer Devices

About this role

ABOUT THE TEAM

OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Consumer Devices team is building a new generation of AI-powered products that seamlessly integrate hardware and software to create intuitive, transformative experiences. We bring together experts across embedded systems, machine learning, hardware, design, and product engineering to develop products at the intersection of AI and consumer technology.

ABOUT THE ROLE

OpenAI is seeking a System Performance Engineer to profile, benchmark, and optimize performance across our embedded hardware products. In this role, you will work across operating systems, applications, camera and vision, graphics, and platform teams to define product KPIs, build performance tooling, and drive optimizations from early lab characterization through product launch and real-world usage. You will help establish the performance standards that shape the user experience of our products, ensuring they remain responsive, efficient, and reliable throughout their lifecycle.

This role requires deep expertise in embedded or high-performance systems, strong operating systems fundamentals, and hands-on experience debugging under tight latency, power, and memory constraints.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of four days per week in the office and one day working remotely. Relocation assistance is available for new hires.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Develop system performance benchmarks, methodologies, and policies to evaluate end-to-end product behavior.

• Profile and analyze performance across key product use cases and workloads using custom and industry-standard profiling tools.

• Partner closely with engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and drive performance optimizations across the software stack.