Software Engineer, GPT Infrastructure
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 build OpenAI-hosted services and secure partner-side software for long-running optimization workflows that generate, compile, run, verify, and measure candidate kernels and runtime configurations. You will turn research prototypes into reliable infrastructure and collaborate across research, runtime, security, and product teams.
Requirements
- Strong experience building distributed systems, infrastructure platforms, or orchestration systems
- Proficiency in Python, C++, Go, or Rust
- Experience designing and operating APIs, job orchestration, or large-scale backend services
- Understanding of Linux, networking, storage, containers, and distributed execution
- Ability to diagnose problems across software and hardware boundaries
- Experience with profiling, tracing, and benchmarking
- Strong ownership across teams
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate APIs and control-plane services for workload qualification and optimization campaigns
- Build secure partner-side execution and evaluation software for accelerator hardware
- Integrate model workloads, hardware profiles, compiler toolchains, runtimes, and serving engines into a repeatable platform
- Develop correctness and performance evaluation systems
- Automate generation, evaluation, and improvement of kernels and runtime configurations
- Diagnose performance and correctness issues across the stack
- Build artifact-management, provenance, regression-testing, and qualification workflows
- Turn research workflows into reliable product surfaces
- Collaborate with Research, Inference, Runtime, Compiler, Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams
- Drive technical architecture across ambiguous initiatives
Benefits
- 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, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 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 support
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
