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OpenAI · 1 week ago

Release Engineer, Consumer Products

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$325K/yr - $325K/yr

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Release Engineer, you will design, build, and operate release infrastructure for secure and traceable software delivery across complex systems, collaborating with various teams to ensure fast and production-ready builds.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Design and operate CI/CD pipelines for multi-component builds (bootloader, firmware, OS images, backend, companion apps) using hermetic toolchains
Define versioning and branching strategies; automate promotions, changelogs, and artifact retention
Integrate unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test results; quarantine flaky tests, auto-bisect failures, and block unsafe promotions
Build A/B OTA update flows with verity and health checks; run staged rollouts and canaries; implement safe rollback and roll-forward strategies
Implement code signing for binaries and firmware, generate SBOMs, run vulnerability scanning, and attach build attestations and provenance
Manage dashboards and alerts for build health, promotion latency, failure rates, and fleet update telemetry

Qualification

CI/CD pipelinesScriptingAutomationLinux fundamentalsGitHub ActionsSecure OTA updatesMetrics-driven improvementTeam collaborationProblem-solving

Required

Experience building and operating build and release systems for consumer devices, robotics, mobile, or embedded products
Proficient in scripting and automation languages such as Python or Bash
Strong Linux user-space fundamentals
Experience with GitHub Actions or Buildkite, artifact registries, and reproducible toolchains
Experience managing vendor BSPs and toolchains
Delivered secure OTA or image updates with staged rollouts at scale
Familiar with key management and supply-chain hardening
Track record of metrics-driven improvement and continuous optimization

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Company

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$79B
Key Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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