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Software Engineer, IP 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 improve backend services in Python, taking projects from design to production. You will translate sharing requirements into testable business logic, debug problems across system boundaries, and work with researchers, security teams and partner engineers.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience
  • Strong Python skills and experience building, testing and debugging backend software
  • Experience taking a service, pipeline or automation project into production
  • Ability to turn ambiguous requirements into practical software with sound judgment around sensitive information
  • Clear communication with technical and nontechnical collaborators

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain automated pipelines that transfer model weights, configurations, code and container images
  • Implement validation and business logic for preparing and sharing artifacts
  • Improve production reliability through testing, monitoring, diagnostics and failure handling
  • Integrate services with source control, object storage and build and container tooling
  • Partner with researchers, security teams and external engineers to resolve integration problems
  • Improve workflows and use AI tools to make systems more effective

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
Software Engineer, IP Infrastructure at OpenAI | JobStash