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Software Engineer, Fleet Infrastructure

OpenAI· Scaling
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San Francisco, New York City$230k - $490k + equityFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Engineer responsible for designing, deploying, and operating infrastructure systems for model deployment and training on OpenAI’s large GPU fleet, focusing on compute fleet components, scheduling, reliability, and collaboration with researchers and product teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement and operate components of our compute fleet including job scheduling, cluster management, snapshot delivery, and CI/CD systems.
  • Interface with researchers and product teams to understand workload requirements
  • Collaborate with hardware, infrastructure, and business teams to provide a high utilization and high reliability service

Qualifications

  • Experience with hyperscale compute systems
  • Strong programming skills
  • Experience working in public clouds (especially Azure)
  • Experience working in Kubernetes
  • Execution focused mentality paired with a rigorous focus on user requirements
  • Understanding of AI/ML workloads (bonus)

Skills

Required:Hyperscale compute systemsProgrammingPublic cloud (Azure)Kubernetes
Nice to have:AI/ML workloads

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company 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 for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching and wellness stipends)
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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