Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform
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
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About the Role
You will take ownership of a critical analytics platform end to end, from defining technical direction and designing data models and storage architecture to integrating with research dashboards and workflows. You will work directly with researchers, guide one or two engineers, and turn recurring needs into reusable infrastructure.
Requirements
- Experience owning a critical distributed system or research platform end to end
- Experience with Rust or C++ including profiling, concurrency, async execution and I/O
- Deep expertise in an area such as distributed databases, storage engines, analytics systems, telemetry, search or query execution
- Ability to reason about partitioning, replication, consistency, retries and backpressure
- Experience with OLAP, columnar, time-series or high-throughput analytical systems
- Strong computer science fundamentals
- Regular use of coding agents
Responsibilities
- Own critical systems across architecture, implementation, integrations, deployment, monitoring and adoption
- Design, build and operate ingestion, storage, retrieval and query systems for research analytics
- Build platforms for analyzing structured metrics and unstructured research data
- Make architectural tradeoffs across data models, storage formats, indexing, query execution, caching and visualization performance
- Work directly with researchers to understand their needs and challenge requested solutions
- Turn recurring problems into shared infrastructure, APIs and platform components
- Write code, investigate production issues, guide other engineers and plan rollout and observability
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental and vision insurance with employer HSA 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 for exempt employees
- 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 support
- Performance-related bonus
