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Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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About the Role

You will build and scale systems that train agentic models and run agents in production. You'll contribute to an in-house container orchestration platform, develop FastAPI and gRPC APIs, use Terraform to manage infrastructure, and collaborate with researchers to optimize systems for novel training runs.

Requirements

  • Deep experience with large-scale machine learning infrastructure
  • Ability to build 0-1 and scale systems
  • Strong performance optimization skills for distributed systems
  • Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
  • Deep expertise in virtualization and containerization technologies (e.g. Kata, Firecracker, gVisor, Sysbox)

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to an in-house container orchestration platform to scale compute clusters
  • Develop and maintain FastAPI and gRPC APIs for agentic infrastructure
  • Use Terraform to build and evolve research and production infrastructure
  • Collaborate with research teams to stand up and optimize systems for AI training runs

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 life and disability coverage
  • Learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
  • Hybrid work model