Release Engineer

About the company

• OpenAI — AI research and deployment company building consumer devices.

About the role

• Design, build, and operate release infrastructure for reliable, secure, and traceable software delivery across complex multi-component systems.
• Hybrid work model: 4 days per week in office, relocation assistance available.

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, artifact retention.
• Integrate unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test results; quarantine flaky tests, auto-bisect failures.
• Build A/B OTA update flows with verity and health checks; staged rollouts, canaries, safe rollback/roll-forward.
• Implement code signing, generate SBOMs, run vulnerability scanning, attach build attestations and provenance.
• Manage dashboards and alerts for build health, promotion latency, failure rates, fleet update telemetry.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating build/release systems for consumer devices, robotics, mobile, or embedded products.
• Proficiency in Python or Bash.
• Strong Linux user-space fundamentals.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or Buildkite, artifact registries, reproducible toolchains.
• Experience managing vendor BSPs and toolchains.
• Delivered secure OTA or image updates with staged rollouts at scale.
• Familiarity with key management and supply-chain hardening.
• Metrics-driven improvement track record.