Systems Generalist, 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 design and operate durable APIs and control-plane services for long-running optimization campaigns, and build secure partner-side runner and grader software that evaluates candidates on third-party accelerator hardware. You will integrate compilers, runtimes and inference-serving engines, build evaluation and provenance workflows, and turn research prototypes into reliable products while collaborating across teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure platforms, or cloud services
- Strong programming skills in C++, Python, Go, or Rust
- Experience designing and operating highly available backend systems, APIs, or durable workflows
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, Linux, networking, storage, containers and cloud architectures
- Experience debugging complex systems and using profiling and benchmarks
- Ability to lead complex technical initiatives as a senior individual contributor
Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate durable APIs and control-plane services for optimization campaigns
- Build secure partner-side runner and grader software for third-party accelerator hardware
- Integrate hardware profiles, toolchains, compilers, runtimes and inference-serving engines
- Turn research prototypes into reliable product surfaces
- Develop correctness and performance evaluation systems
- Build artifact, provenance and qualification workflows
- Collaborate with Research, Inference Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Product and Strategic Partnerships
- Drive technical architecture across ambiguous cross-functional initiatives
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Equity
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
