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Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

OpenAI· Scaling
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Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (New York City), Hybrid (Seattle), Hybrid (London, UK)$230k - $405k + equityFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Engineers who build and optimize the compute platform behind OpenAI's research and products, across a broad range of layers from low-level hardware integration to user-facing tooling, with a focus on reliability, performance, and usability at massive scale.

Responsibilities

  • Build and deeply optimize reliable system software for large-scale compute systems that run some of the world's most demanding AI workloads
  • Design and operate infrastructure across accelerators, CPUs, NICs, switches, networking protocols, storage, data centers, cluster orchestration, scheduling, and fleet health
  • Profile, benchmark, and optimize training workloads across compute, memory, storage, networking, NCCL and collective communication, and cluster scheduling bottlenecks
  • Create hardware-aware automation that makes provisioning, firmware and driver upgrades, incident response, and day-to-day operations faster and less error-prone
  • Build CaaS, agent infrastructure, profiling, observability, benchmarking, and platform tools that help researchers, product engineers, and operators launch, debug, and optimize workloads with less friction
  • Turn operational lessons into better systems, stronger abstractions, and clearer ownership boundaries across teams
  • Collaborate across research, engineering, security, networking, hardware, and data center teams to make compute capacity more capable and easier to use

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering skills and experience building, operating, or improving production infrastructure systems
  • Experience in one or more relevant areas such as distributed systems, operating systems, networking protocols, RDMA, NCCL or collective communication, storage, Kubernetes, scheduling, observability, reliability engineering, high-performance computing, GPU infrastructure, CaaS, agent infrastructure, hardware-aware performance optimization, benchmarking, developer experience, or infrastructure tooling
  • Ability to debug complex system behavior across software, hardware, networking, and workload layers, then turn findings into robust improvements
  • Comfort with ambiguity, strong ownership, and a bias toward practical, durable solutions
  • Interest in working on infrastructure that directly enables frontier AI research and product impact

Skills

Required:Software engineering for production infrastructureDistributed systems / operating systems / networking

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 to fuel your professional growth
  • Daily meals in our 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 Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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