Software Engineer, Agent Platform

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

41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 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 operate production services that power agentic products. You'll design APIs and platform abstractions, develop orchestration for agent execution, state and recovery, and improve reliability, latency and efficiency, owning systems from design through rollout and operation.

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating large-scale backend services, distributed systems or cloud infrastructure
  • Understanding of system performance, concurrency, failure modes and resource management
  • Experience with cloud platforms, containers, orchestration or infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
  • Ability to turn prototypes into reliable services

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate production services enabling agents to execute code, use tools and interact with external systems
  • Design APIs and platform abstractions for product teams
  • Develop orchestration systems managing agent execution, state, resource allocation, retries and recovery
  • Improve reliability, latency and efficiency through optimization, observability and capacity planning
  • Partner with product, research, security and infrastructure teams
  • Own systems through full lifecycle

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