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Software Engineer, Fleet Management

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 design and build systems to manage cloud and bare-metal fleets at scale, integrating individual nodes and servers into unified clusters. You will develop tools linking low-level hardware metrics with scheduling, use LLMs to coordinate vendor operations, automate infrastructure toil, and collaborate with hardware, infrastructure, and research teams. The role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid model of 3 days in the office per week.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering skills with experience in large-scale infrastructure environments
  • Broad knowledge of cluster-level systems (e.g., Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, cloud providers)
  • Deep expertise in server-level systems (e.g., containerization, Chef, Linux kernels, firmware management, host routing)

Responsibilities

  • Design and build systems to manage cloud and bare-metal fleets at scale
  • Develop tools that integrate low-level hardware metrics with job scheduling and cluster management algorithms
  • Leverage LLMs to coordinate vendor operations and optimize infrastructure workflows
  • Automate infrastructure processes to reduce toil and improve reliability
  • Collaborate with hardware, infrastructure, and research teams
  • Improve tools, automation, processes, and documentation

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
  • Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
  • Paid sick or safe time
  • 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
  • Performance-related bonus
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