Network Engineer
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, operate, and continuously improve global networks connecting offices, labs, campuses, PoPs, cloud environments, and devices. You'll shape architecture and standards, own production operations including on-call and incident response, build observability, automate with Infrastructure-as-Code, and partner with security teams.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with enterprise networks on Cisco IOS, Meraki, Palo Alto, Arista or equivalent
- Strong routing and switching fundamentals including BGP, OSPF, VLAN/VRF, WAN
- Production troubleshooting experience
- Network observability experience with SNMP, syslog, NetFlow, ELK, Grafana
- Network security fundamentals including ACLs, firewalls, VPN, 802.1X/NAC
- Automation with Python, Go, Terraform, Ansible, APIs, Git, CI/CD
- Experience with enterprise wireless and a cloud or hybrid connectivity environment
- Clear communication and operational judgment
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate secure, scalable enterprise networks
- Set strategic direction through architecture, standards, roadmaps, and capacity planning
- Own production operations including on-call and incident response
- Eliminate recurring failure modes through automation and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Develop dashboards, telemetry, alerts, and health checks
- Implement and operate routing, switching, wireless, WAN, Internet edge, firewall, NAC, and segmentation
- Lead network changes, migrations, refreshes, and site launches
- Partner with security teams on least privilege, Zero Trust, RBAC, and device identity
- Balance long-term improvements with urgent operational priorities
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation assistance
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
