OpenAI· Consumer Products· San Francisco
Release Engineer | Consumer Devices
Comp$293K – $325K
Classified Tasks (35)
Automate 17%Augment 77%Human-Only 6%
Automate (6)
Fully handled by AI agents
Automate changelog generation
technical
Automate artifact retention policies
administrative
Block unsafe promotions based on test and validation outcomes
operational
Generate software bill of materials (SBOMs) for builds
technical
Run vulnerability scanning on build artifacts and images
technical
Attach build attestations and provenance to artifacts
technical
Augment (27)
AI assists, human decides
Build systems that power CI/CD pipelines
technical
Maintain systems that power CI/CD pipelines
operational
Build artifact management systems
technical
Maintain artifact management systems
operational
Build release automation systems
technical
Maintain release automation systems
operational
Build fleet telemetry systems
technical
Maintain fleet telemetry systems
operational
Ensure bootloaders, firmware, operating systems, and cloud services are built reproducibly
technical
Validate software rigorously across multi-component systems
analytical
Release software safely at scale across hardware and cloud fleets
operational
Design release infrastructure that enables reliable, secure, and traceable software delivery
technical
Operate release infrastructure for complex multi-component systems
operational
Ensure every build from development to OTA deployment is fast, verifiable, and production-ready
technical
Design CI/CD pipelines for multi-component builds using hermetic toolchains
technical
Operate CI/CD pipelines for multi-component builds using hermetic toolchains
operational
Automate artifact promotions
technical
Integrate unit test, integration test, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test results into pipelines
technical
Quarantine flaky tests
technical
Auto-bisect test and build failures
technical
Build A/B OTA update flows with verity and health checks
technical
Run staged rollouts and canary deployments
operational
Implement safe rollback strategies for updates
technical
Implement safe roll-forward strategies for updates
technical
Implement code signing for binaries and firmware
technical
Manage dashboards for build health, promotion latency, failure rates, and fleet update telemetry
analytical
Configure and manage alerts for build health, promotion latency, failure rates, and fleet update telemetry
operational
Human-Only (2)
Requires human judgment
Collaborate with embedded, cloud, and QA teams to coordinate releases
communication
Define versioning and branching strategies
leadership
Job description
Release Engineer | Consumer Devices | OpenAI Careers ## Release Engineer | Consumer Devices Consumer Products - San Francisco Apply now(opens in a new window) ## About the Team The **Release Engineer** team is responsible for building and maintaining the systems that power software delivery—from CI/CD pipelines and artifact management to release automation and fleet telemetry. We ensure software across bootloaders, firmware, operating systems, and cloud services is built reproducibly, validated rigorously, and released safely at scale. ## About the Role As a Release Engineer, you’ll design, build, and operate release infrastructure that enables reliable, secure, and traceable software delivery across complex multi-component systems. You’ll partner closely with embedded, cloud, and QA teams to ensure that every build—from development to OTA deployment—is fast, verifiable, and production-ready. We’re looking for engineers who take pride in automation, build reproducibility, and system reliability—and who enjoy building the connective tissue that allows hardware and software to ship together seamlessly. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. ## In this role, you will: * 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. ## You might thrive in this role if you: * Have experience building and operating build and release systems for consumer devices, robotics, mobile, or embedded products. * Are proficient in scripting and automation languages such as Python or Bash. * Have strong Linux user-space fundamentals. * Have experience with GitHub Actions or Buildkite, artifact registries, and reproducible toolchains. * Have experience managing vendor BSPs and toolchains. * Have delivered secure OTA or image updates with staged rollouts at scale. * Are familiar with key management and supply-chain hardening. * Have a track record of metrics-driven improvement and continuous optimization. **About OpenAI** OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordin