Software Engineer, Model Deployment - ChatGPT Engineering
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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
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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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About the Role
You will build and evolve the platform used to deploy, configure, and manage models across ChatGPT. You'll develop deployment orchestration, rollout and operational visibility systems, automate incident workflows, and support capacity planning, partnering with research, infrastructure, and product teams.
Requirements
- Five or more years of software engineering experience building production infrastructure
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, C++, Rust, or a comparable language
- Experience designing or operating highly available distributed systems
- Experience with platform, infrastructure, production, or site reliability engineering
- Strong systems design, debugging, and operational problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills and experience collaborating across engineering teams
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve the platform used to deploy, configure, and manage models across ChatGPT
- Develop systems for deployment orchestration, model rollouts, operational visibility, and production readiness
- Create abstractions and tooling that simplify complex infrastructure and improve developer experience
- Automate operational workflows including incident detection, diagnosis, mitigation, and recovery
- Improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency of model deployments
- Build systems for capacity planning, resource allocation, and infrastructure utilization
- Partner with research, infrastructure, and product engineering teams
- Shape the technical direction of the model management platform
Benefits
- Generous equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan 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 coordinated 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 for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
