AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 2H AGO
Frontier labonsite$230k–$385k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build the core agent harness turning model capability into real-world action.
- Own sandboxing and orchestration for agents in live dev environments.
- Partner with research to make harness trainable and measurable.
What they offer
- Offers Equity
Ideal candidate
Agent-systems builder who thrives across low-level systems and ML workflows and cares deeply about reliability, safety, and debuggability. Moves quickly from ambiguous production failures to durable fixes while shipping close to research.
Requirements
- Built or operated production systems in distributed systems, infrastructure, developer tooling, or ML systems
- Hands-on experience with LLM applications, coding agents, evals, model deployment, or developer platforms
- Care deeply about reliability, safety, performance, debuggability, and clean abstractions
- Can debug from evidence and move from ambiguous failures to durable fixes
- Want to work close to research while shipping to production
- Write meaningful code with strong ownership and can lead scoped AI systems work
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets