Software Engineer

About the Team

The team is responsible for developing and maintaining software systems that support iterative development, testing, and deployment, enabling high velocity and a frictionless development cycle.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain software systems that support OpenAI’s build system and infrastructure, with a focus on scalability, performance, observability, and reliability.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. Telecommuting is permitted from within the U.S.

In this role, you will :

• Develop and maintain software systems for iterative development, testing, and deployment
• Design and implement continuous integration pipelines, testing infrastructure, and support around OpenAI’s build system
• Work on scalability, performance, observability, and security of infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demands
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to specify and implement availability, performance, correctness, and efficiency requirements
• Proactively monitor systems to identify issues and anomalies and implement fault tolerant and resilient design patterns
• Build and maintain automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and improve system reliability
• Participate in an on call rotation to respond to critical incidents and ensure 24 / 7 system availability

Compensation Range

$160,000 to $300,000 per year

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers : we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment : protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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