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Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

OpenAI· Scaling
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San Francisco, New York City, London, UK$230k - $385k + equityFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer on the Agent Infrastructure team, building and scaling systems to train agentic models and delivering production platform integrations for agent runtimes across OpenAI products.

Responsibilities

  • Push massive compute clusters to their limits. Core contributor to in-house container orchestration platform to scale beyond Kubernetes.
  • Develop and maintain FastAPI and gRPC APIs that serve as the interface for agentic infrastructure used in training and production.
  • Use Terraform to stand up and evolve complex infrastructure for both research and production.
  • Collaborate with research teams to stand up and optimize systems for novel AI training runs and experimental applications.

Qualifications

  • Deep experience working on large-scale machine learning infrastructure.
  • Ability to build new things from 0-1 quickly and scale them 1,000,000x.
  • Keen focus on performance and optimization for globally-distributed systems.
  • Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
  • Driven by solving complex, ambiguous problems at the intersection of infrastructure scalability, virtualization efficiency, and agentic capabilities.
  • Deep technical expertise in virtualization and containerization technologies (e.g., Kata, Firecracker, gVisor, Sysbox) and optimizing runtime performance.

Skills

Required:Large-scale ML infrastructureSystem design 0-1 to scalePerformance optimizationTerraformKubernetes alternatives/container orchestration

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 throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus 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 as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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