# Release Engineer, Consumer Products

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $293k – $325k/yr
**Skills:** CI/CD, Python, Bash, Linux, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Ota, Sbom, Kubernetes, Firmware
**Posted:** 2025-12-17

> Designs and operates CI/CD pipelines and release infrastructure for multi-component systems including bootloaders, firmware, and OTA updates. Requires strong automation skills in Python/Bash, Linux expertise, and experience with build systems for embedded/consumer products.

## Job Description

## 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.

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