Operating Systems Engineer - Consumer Devices

About UsAt Foundry Robotics, we are pioneering an AI-driven, assembly-centric contract manufacturing model. Our approach integrates software-defined manufacturing, where both robots and humans collaborate to achieve tangible production outcomes.Our unique value proposition transcends simple models; we deliver a powerful software infrastructure that converts:Orders into SchedulesSchedules into Work InstructionsWork into TelemetryTelemetry into Continuous Improvement of Throughput, Quality, and CostThis position is focused on senior software engineering, specifically in creating the cloud and on-premises systems that operate the factory, alongside the data architecture that ensures these systems are observable, reliable, and scalable.Please note, we are also recruiting Robotics Research Engineers separately; this role is distinct from that.The RoleWe are in search of a Senior Software Engineer (Individual Contributor) to develop the backend systems and infrastructure that will drive the factory of the future.Your responsibilities will include designing and implementing:Cloud-based backend systemsOn-premises factory servicesEmbedded-to-cloud data flowsPetabyte-scale visual data pipelinesMachine learning infrastructure across diverse computational environmentsYou will be tasked with creating production systems that remain operational in challenging conditions, such as noisy factories, unreliable connectivity, and the real costs associated with downtime.This is a practical engineering role where you will be expected to deliver tangible results.Key ResponsibilitiesCloud & On-Prem ArchitectureDevelop and sustain a cloud-based backend for planning, scheduling, execution, inventory management, traceability, and telemetryDesign architectures that span embedded, on-premises, and cloud systems across multiple compute environmentsImplement infrastructure-as-code principles using TerraformEnsure secure and reliable data transfer between the factory floor and the cloudML Infrastructure & Data SystemsEstablish petabyte-scale visual data pipelines for the ingestion, curation, indexing, and preparation of manufacturing data

About Lumafield: Established in 2019, Lumafield has pioneered the development of the world's first accessible X-Ray CT scanner specifically designed for engineers. Our intuitive scanner, combined with cloud-based software, empowers engineers to gain unparalleled insights into their projects at a remarkably affordable cost. Engineers face high-stakes decisions daily, necessitating tools that provide maximum visibility into their designs. By delivering exceptional product clarity and AI-enhanced tools that identify issues and produce quantitative insights, Lumafield is set to transform the creation, manufacturing, and application of complex products across various sectors. Our company thrives on impact and is dedicated to delivering the utmost value to our customers, ensuring their needs drive our development. Our talented team consists of leading researchers, industrial designers, PhD holders, innovators, and startup founders, all working collaboratively without egos. We proudly receive backing from prestigious venture capital firms, including Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, DCVC, and Spark Capital.Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with an additional office in San Francisco, CA, we are excited to grow our team.About the Role: As a Senior Systems Software Engineer at Lumafield, you will be instrumental in developing the software that drives our cutting-edge, in-line manufacturing CT scanning products. You will engage with state-of-the-art X-ray physics, high-speed detectors, image processing, and embedded systems. Collaborating within a small team focused on our latest hardware, you will harness your expertise to maximize system performance and achieve outstanding results for our clients. This position is perfect for those eager to take ownership of embedded systems, firmware, and software design in an early-stage product environment. This role is based in our San Francisco, CA office, with occasional travel required to our Cambridge, MA office.

At Oura, we are dedicated to empowering individuals to unlock their true potential. Our award-winning products, including the Oura Ring and its integrated app, provide our global community with insights into their readiness, activity levels, and sleep quality. By delivering daily insights and actionable steps, we have enabled millions to enhance their health and embrace healthier lifestyles.Our mission of empowerment begins with our values and extends to our team. As a rapidly growing company committed to fostering healthier and happier lives, we ensure our employees have the resources they need to excel both in and out of the workplace.As the Lead, Sustaining & Factory Operations Program Manager, you will act as the pivotal link between product innovation and global manufacturing excellence, ensuring a smooth transition from New Product Introduction (NPI) to high-volume mass production. This influential leadership position requires a seasoned professional adept at mentoring a high-performing team, developing long-term capacity plans, and managing executive-level relationships with global Contract Manufacturers to optimize yield, quality, and throughput. With over ten years of experience in hardware operations and a comprehensive understanding of the full product lifecycle, you will spearhead the overarching Design for Manufacturing (DFM) strategy and oversee multi-million dollar capital investments while mitigating complex supply chain risks. We seek a financially astute leader with a strong executive presence ready to enhance global operations and shape the future of our manufacturing landscape.This position is hybrid, requiring three days a week in our San Francisco, California office.

At NerdWallet, we are committed to empowering individuals to make informed financial decisions. Our team comprises exceptional individuals who thrive in an inclusive, flexible, and candid environment. Whether you choose to work remotely or in the office, we prioritize your well-being, professional development, and the impact you can make. We believe that when one of us elevates our skills, the whole team benefits.As part of NerdWallet’s Platform team, you will oversee the systems that serve as the backbone of our consumer experience. This includes management of our centralized product data platform, partner ingestion pipelines, publishing and click-tracking infrastructure, GraphQL gateway operations, and our high-traffic, headless WordPress CMS. These platforms deliver precise, compliant, and high-performance product and content experiences to millions of users on both web and mobile platforms. We are searching for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead this team in modernizing legacy services into scalable and reliable systems while advancing our vision of a decoupled, adaptable platform that facilitates quicker publishing, enhanced observability, and future growth.In the role of Senior Engineering Manager for Platform Systems, you will guide and support a team of engineers in delivering high-quality, scalable, and secure software that aligns with NerdWallet’s product and business objectives. You will collaborate closely with Product Managers and other cross-functional partners to define the roadmap, prioritize tasks, and eliminate obstacles, while nurturing strong engineering practices and a culture of continuous improvement. Your responsibilities will include ensuring technical quality, team well-being, and daily operations, while mentoring engineers, making strategic technical decisions, and balancing immediate deliverables with long-term sustainability, compliance, and reliability.This position reports to the Director of Engineering.Opportunities for Impact:Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering team responsible for NerdWallet’s platform systems, including the Content Platform, CMS, and Product Data Platform.Collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional teams to strategize, prioritize, and execute the product roadmap.Champion consistent adherence to software development best practices, including code quality, testing, documentation, and operational excellence.Influence and guide technical and architectural decisions to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, and compliant with regulatory standards.Balance immediate project needs with long-term project vision and maintainability.

About GranicaGranica is an innovative AI research and infrastructure firm dedicated to creating reliable and steerable representations of enterprise data.We build trust through our product Crunch, a policy-driven health layer that ensures large tabular datasets remain efficient, reliable, and reversible. On this solid foundation, we are developing Large Tabular Models—systems designed to learn cross-column and relational structures in order to provide trustworthy answers and automation with inherent provenance and governance.Our MissionAI is currently hampered not only by the design of models but also by the inefficiencies of the data that supports them. Every redundant byte, poorly organized dataset, and inefficient data pathway contributes to significant costs, latency, and energy waste as we scale.Granica aims to eliminate these inefficiencies. We merge cutting-edge research in information theory, probabilistic modeling, and distributed systems to craft self-optimizing data infrastructures: systems that consistently enhance the representation and utilization of information by AI.Our engineering team collaborates closely with the Granica Research group led by Prof. Andrea Montanari of Stanford University, bridging advancements in information theory and learning efficiency with large-scale distributed systems. Together, we firmly believe that the next major advancement in AI will stem from breakthroughs in efficient systems rather than merely larger models.Your ContributionsGlobal Metadata Substrate: Design a transactional and metadata substrate that facilitates time-travel, schema evolution, and atomic consistency across massive petabyte-scale tabular datasets.Adaptive Engines: Develop systems that autonomously reorganize data, learning from access patterns and workloads to maintain peak efficiency without the need for manual tuning.Intelligent Data Layouts: Optimize bit-level organization (including encoding, compression, and layout) to maximize signal extraction per byte read.Autonomous Compute Pipelines: Create distributed compute systems that scale predictably, adapt to dynamic loads, and ensure reliability under failure conditions.Research to Production: Apply new algorithms in compression, representation, and optimization that emerge from ongoing research. We encourage opportunities to publish and open-source your work.Latency as Intelligence: Design systems that inherently minimize latency as a measure of intelligence.

Join Discord, a vibrant platform that connects over 200 million users monthly, primarily through gaming. More than 90% of our users engage in gaming, contributing to an astounding 1.5 billion hours spent playing diverse titles each month. At Discord, we are committed to enhancing the gaming experience by fostering fun and engaging conversations among players before, during, and after gameplay.The Design Systems team is a dynamic, cross-functional unit dedicated to ensuring top-notch design quality across every aspect of user interface, content, and graphics. We create fundamental design elements and standards that empower engineers and designers in the development of Discord’s products. Our collaborative efforts accelerate the delivery of new features that are not only accessible and consistent but also of the highest quality. Additionally, we set the accessibility benchmarks for Discord and assist other engineering teams in meeting these standards. This pivotal role directly supports Discord's mission of creating an inclusive community where everyone can find their place.

Join Handshake as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Operator Tooling. In this role, you will be instrumental in enhancing our operational efficiency through innovative tooling solutions. Your expertise will help streamline processes and empower our operators to deliver exceptional outcomes.

At Databricks, we are driven by a passion for empowering data teams to tackle the world’s most challenging problems — from transforming transportation to accelerating medical innovations. We achieve this by creating and maintaining the leading data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our clients to leverage profound data insights for business enhancement. Founded by engineers with a customer-first mentality, we eagerly embrace every opportunity to tackle complex technical challenges, ranging from the design of next-generation UI/UX for data interactions to scaling our services across millions of virtual machines. Our journey has just begun.As a member of the Runtime team at Databricks, you will be instrumental in developing the next generation of distributed data storage and processing systems. These systems will surpass specialized SQL query engines in relational query performance while offering the programming abstractions necessary to support a variety of workloads, from ETL to data science.Example projects include:Apache Spark™: Contribute to the de facto open-source standard framework for big data.Data Plane Storage: Develop reliable and high-performance services and client libraries for managing vast amounts of data within cloud storage backends like AWS S3 and Azure Blob Store.Delta Lake: Design a storage management system that merges the scalability and cost-effectiveness of data lakes with the performance and reliability of data warehouses, providing features like ACID transactions and time travel.Delta Pipelines: Simplify the orchestration and operation of numerous data pipelines, enabling clients to deploy, test, and upgrade pipelines effortlessly.Performance Engineering: Create the next-generation query optimizer and execution engine that is fast, scalable, and robust.

At Scribd, Inc., we are dedicated to enhancing human understanding through our suite of innovative products, including Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable. Our mission revolves around transforming access into deeper insights and expertise for billions globally.Our CultureWe foster a culture where authenticity and boldness are encouraged; where constructive debates lead to commitment, and where every team member is empowered to prioritize customer needs.We believe that exceptional work emerges from harmonizing individual flexibility with a strong sense of community. Our Scribd Flex program allows employees to select their preferred work style and location, while also emphasizing the importance of intentional in-person interactions to enhance collaboration and culture. All employees are expected to participate in occasional in-person meetings, regardless of their location.We look for team members who embody “GRIT”—the intersection of passion and perseverance towards long-term goals. GRIT serves as a framework for our operations: setting and achieving Goals, delivering impactful Results, contributing Innovative ideas, and building a strong Team through collaboration.Join us at Scribd (pronounced “scribbed”) as we ignite human curiosity and create a world filled with stories and knowledge, democratizing the exchange of ideas and empowering collective expertise.The TeamOur ML Data Engineering team is responsible for powering metadata extraction, enrichment, and content understanding across our platforms.

Who We AreSamsara (NYSE: IOT) is at the forefront of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, providing a robust platform that empowers organizations reliant on physical operations to leverage Internet of Things (IoT) data for actionable insights and enhanced operational performance. We are committed to enhancing the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the physical operations that underpin our global economy, representing over 40% of global GDP across vital industries such as agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing. Join us in our mission to digitally transform these sectors at scale.At Samsara, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of physical operations, contributing to an exciting range of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring. As a publicly traded company, we offer you the autonomy and support to make a lasting impact as we build for the future.About the Role:As a Senior Systems EPM at Samsara, you will lead hardware engineering projects from initial product concept through to mass production. Collaborating closely with Electrical Engineering, Product Development, Firmware, and Field Services teams, as well as product managers and supply chain professionals, you will develop and deliver high-quality products. This role involves driving the product development process across cross-functional teams to ensure timely achievement of product goals. We seek someone passionate about product quality, who demonstrates strong process ownership and innovation, and who is eager to enjoy the journey of bringing physical operations into the cloud.This is a hybrid position open to candidates residing in the US, who are willing to work in our San Francisco, CA office three days a week.You Should Apply If:You desire to make a difference in the industries that sustain our world: Your contributions will have a tangible impact—ensuring operational continuity, facilitating food supply, reducing emissions, and, most importantly, guaranteeing worker safety.You are the architect of your own career: If you demonstrate commitment, this role will be just the beginning of your journey with Samsara. We are dedicated to fostering employee success and have cultivated a culture that promotes rapid career advancement, with numerous opportunities for experiential learning.

Headway is seeking a Senior Manager, People Systems & Operations to guide the development and management of HR systems. This position plays a key role in supporting a growing workforce and enhancing the employee experience as the company expands. Key Responsibilities Oversee and refine people systems to align with organizational goals. Work closely with teams across Headway to deliver effective HR solutions. Promote efficiency in HR operations and processes. Support strategic projects that shape the employee lifecycle. Analyze data to generate insights that support employees and guide business decisions. Locations New York, NY San Francisco, CA Seattle, WA Remote (United States)

Join Crusoe as a Principal Systems Software Engineer and play a vital role in revolutionizing the tech industry. You will lead the development of innovative software solutions that enhance our systems and platforms, contributing to the overall mission of providing efficient and sustainable computing resources. Your expertise will help shape the future of our software architecture and ensure seamless integration across various applications.

About Our Team:Join the innovative Database Systems team at OpenAI, where we specialize in high-performance distributed databases. We are the architects behind Rockset, a cutting-edge real-time search, analytics, and vector database that powers all vector search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) at OpenAI. Rockset underpins core functionalities across all OpenAI product lines and supports various critical internal applications.About the Role:We are in search of engineers who are passionate about distributed systems, performance optimization at a low level (with our core engine developed in C++), and constructing scalable database infrastructures from scratch. As a member of the Database Systems team, you will play a key role in enhancing the core database engine, making significant contributions to ingestion, query execution, indexing, and storage improvements. You will collaborate with multiple teams across OpenAI to unlock new product capabilities and ensure the reliability and scalability of our online database as usage expands exponentially.Your Responsibilities Will Include:Design, develop, and maintain high-performance distributed systems.Identify and address performance bottlenecks to elevate infrastructure capabilities.Define and guide the long-term technical vision and evolution of the system.Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to deliver robust and scalable infrastructure.Investigate complex production issues across the entire technology stack.Contribute to incident response, retrospective analyses, and establishing best practices for system reliability.You Will Excel In This Role If You:Possess substantial experience in building, scaling, and optimizing distributed systems.Exhibit a keen interest in database internals, storage engines, or low-latency query systems.Enjoy tackling complex performance challenges in high-throughput systems.Have experience managing and operating production clusters at scale (e.g., Kubernetes or similar orchestration tools).Approach scalability, correctness, and reliability with a rigorous mindset.Thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can make a significant impact.Qualifications:4+ years of relevant industry experience with a focus on distributed systems.Proficiency in C++ or similar low-level programming languages.Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.Experience with performance monitoring and optimization tools.Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

The Role Are you a skilled software engineer with a proven track record in building and refining production systems? Are you eager to apply your expertise at the forefront of AI technology? If so, this opportunity may be perfect for you. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Natural Language Understanding team within the “agent lab,” you will be pivotal in our mission to enhance the capabilities of AI agents for reliable, scalable performance. You will have the chance to influence the evolution of the Moveworks AI Assistant platform in several key areas: agent orchestration, sandboxed file systems, latency optimization, and multimodal I/O, among others. You will leverage the best tools in enterprise AI, including cutting-edge LLMs from top providers like OpenAI. Our team prioritizes rapid innovation on scalable infrastructure while tackling challenging product and engineering obstacles to deliver exceptional value to our clients. If you are looking to achieve the pinnacle of your career alongside a passionate, dedicated team focused on making an impact, we invite you to connect with us.

About Ditto Ditto builds technology for resilient, real-time data flow at the edge. The company’s peer-to-peer synchronization engine keeps devices connected and data consistent, even when internet access is unreliable or unavailable. Organizations like Chick-fil-A, Delta Airlines, and the U.S. military use Ditto to power mission-critical experiences in aviation, retail, travel, hospitality, and defense. With over $145 million in funding, Ditto is a fast-growing, globally distributed startup committed to building a diverse and inclusive team, essential for solving tough connectivity problems in challenging environments. Role Overview: Senior Software Engineer - Autonomy (Remote) This Senior Software Engineer role focuses on autonomy and field deployment. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, work directly with key users to integrate Ditto’s platform into operational environments, especially where robotics and real-time data are essential. The position calls for adaptable engineers who can quickly solve complex technical challenges and reduce the time it takes for customers to realize value from Ditto’s software. Expect to collaborate closely with both users and Ditto’s core product engineering team, relaying technical feedback and feature requests. The work often involves ambiguity, rapid troubleshooting, and direct involvement in field testing. Key Responsibilities Integrate with Robotic Platforms: Lead on-site software integration with unmanned ground, aerial, and maritime systems. Establish reliable data connections between Ditto’s synchronization layer and various robotic autonomy stacks. Develop on ROS2 and DDS Middleware: Design, build, and debug software nodes within ROS2 frameworks. Use DDS (Data Distribution Service) for real-time, publish-subscribe communication between robotic subsystems and Ditto’s platform. Implement MAVLink Integrations: Create and refine MAVLink-based communication channels for telemetry, command, and control of unmanned aerial systems. Ensure dependable data transfer between Ditto’s platform and autopilot firmware. Solve Problems in Real-Time: Act as the first line of technical support during field testing. Diagnose and resolve software, sensor, and communication issues on robotic platforms as they arise. Location Remote. Candidates in Atlanta, Austin, San Francisco, or Seattle are encouraged to apply.

Join us at sfcompute, where we are revolutionizing the future by mitigating risks associated with the largest infrastructure development in history.As the demand for GPU clusters surges, financing these data centers and their supporting infrastructure has never been more critical. Our innovative approach ensures that financing is secured through long-term contracts, providing peace of mind to both lenders and developers.In the fast-paced world of AI and compute resources, we are creating a liquid market for GPU offtake, allowing even small startups to access high-end computing power without the burdens of traditional financing.About the RoleAs a Systems Software Engineer at sfcompute, you will be instrumental in developing a GPU market that brings the advanced software capabilities of hyperscalers to our innovative GPU neoclouds. Your responsibilities will encompass provisioning and monitoring bare metal servers with our virtualization orchestration software, as well as collaborating with our GPU marketplace to facilitate user configurations of VMs, networks, and storage.Key tasks include creating and maintaining a Linux OS image tailored for our tools, ensuring consistent deployment across nodes with specific data-center adjustments, and designing the API protocols and servers for user interaction.Our primary programming language is Rust, which enables us to write efficient code across all system layers, from web servers to kernel coordination. If you are familiar with memory-managed languages like C and possess experience in higher-level programming, we encourage you to apply.

About Scribd:At Scribd Inc. (pronounced “scribbed”), we ignite human curiosity by fostering a world rich in stories and knowledge. Join our innovative team as we democratize the flow of ideas and information, empowering collective expertise through our diverse product offerings: Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable.This job posting represents an open and approved position within our organization.We cultivate a culture where authenticity and boldness thrive; where we engage in vibrant discussions and embrace the unexpected; and where every employee is empowered to take meaningful actions with a firm customer focus.Our work structure emphasizes a balance between individual flexibility and community engagement. Through our Scribd Flex program, employees can collaborate with their managers to determine the most effective work style that meets their personal needs. A core principle of Scribd Flex is prioritizing intentional in-person interactions that foster collaboration, culture, and connection. Therefore, occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd employees, irrespective of their location.What do we seek in new team members? We hire for “GRIT.” GRIT embodies the blend of passion and perseverance towards long-term goals. At Scribd Inc., we believe in the possibilities this can unlock and encourage our employees to adopt a GRIT-driven approach to their work. In practical terms, GRIT represents our standards: we look for individuals who can set and accomplish Goals, deliver Results in their roles, contribute Innovative ideas and solutions, and positively impact the Team through collaboration and attitude.

About Us:Aurelius Systems is a venture capital-backed startup at the forefront of defense technology, specializing in the development of autonomous, edge-deployed robotic systems utilizing directed energy for counter-unmanned aerial systems (UAS).Our innovative approach involves creating laser systems designed to neutralize drones.With a dedicated team of approximately 10 engineers, former U.S. military personnel, and industry experts, we are committed to advancing America's capabilities in directed energy technology, delivering the first cost-effective and reliable laser weapon systems.Inspired by the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, we emphasize consistent effort and accountability in our work, embodying a culture of high output without excuses. Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Henry Ford, we embrace innovation and action within our small but impactful team.In addition to our San Francisco headquarters, we are proud to operate a manufacturing hub in Detroit and conduct field tests weekly on our expansive private range.If you thrive on seeing your engineering contributions directly in action rather than being confined to a lab, we encourage you to explore this opportunity.The Position & Your Contribution:As a Robotics Software Systems Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to ensure that all subsystems function seamlessly and efficiently together.Our system comprises a complex array of subsystems including sensing, computer vision, machine learning inference, control systems, power management, and mechanical actuation. Achieving minimal processing time and inter-process latency is crucial for successfully targeting our nimble and evasive UAS.The key area we are looking to fill is real-time systems performance at the hardware interface. You should possess a deep understanding of how software execution impacts physical system behavior, how latency accumulates across CPU, GPU, memory, and I/O, and how bandwidth limitations influence sensor data processing. We need an engineer who is detail-oriented, considering microseconds, memory bandwidth, cache behavior, and system determinism.In our tight-knit team of around 10 engineers, you will have the opportunity to take ownership of systems that are field-tested. The success of our tests is binary—it's either effective or it isn't—and your role will involve iterative improvement based on real-world outcomes.Your Responsibilities:Manage the latency budget for the entire platform, from data sensing to actuation.Profile and mitigate latency across CPU, GPU, memory, and I/O interfaces.Develop and optimize kernels for high-throughput, low-latency operations.Adjust memory access patterns for optimal performance.

About AnthropicAt Anthropic, our mission is to develop AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable. We are committed to ensuring that AI technology is safe and beneficial for our users and society at large. Our rapidly expanding team comprises dedicated researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders, all working collaboratively to create beneficial AI solutions.About the RoleThe Infrastructure organization at Anthropic plays a critical role in our mission to create reliable AI systems. The systems we develop are essential for accelerating the training of new models, conducting safety experiments effectively, and scaling our AI technology, Claude, to serve millions of users. We strive to demonstrate that robust infrastructure and cutting-edge capabilities can work together harmoniously.The Systems engineering team is responsible for ensuring compute uptime and resilience at scale, building the clusters, automation, and observability that enable safe and effective frontier AI research and deployment.Team Matching: After the interview process, team assignments are based on interview performance, individual interests, and business needs. Candidates may be considered for various Infrastructure teams.