Linux Kernels Software Lead

OpenAI

📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Full time Computer Occupations Posted March 03, 2026

Job Description

About the Team
The Scaling team builds and optimizes large-scale infrastructure to enable next-generation AI workloads.

About the Role
We’re looking for a founding/lead Linux kernel developer to join our Scaling team. In this role, you’ll design and develop Linux kernel components, working at the intersection of hardware and software to unlock performance at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and bootstrap the development of our Linux kernel stack to support high-performance systems.

  • Design and implement kernel drivers, including for functionality related to DMA, PCIe, NICs, and RDMA.

  • Drive end-to-end development of system-scale networking, including required kernel and other low-level software.

  • Collaborate with vendors to integrate their technologies within our systems.

  • Bring up and debug the kernel on new platforms.

  • Build userspace software to support integrati...