Network Engineer
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 1H AGO
Frontier labremote$347k–$510k
At a glance
Highlights
- Design and operate global networks connecting offices, labs, campuses and cloud.
- Own production operations and turn incidents into durable automation improvements.
- Enable AI research with secure, scalable and resilient network services.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Versatile network engineer who owns outcomes end-to-end and balances reliability with security. Communicates clearly, partners across teams, and turns operational toil into durable platforms supporting AI research.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise networks
- Strong routing and switching fundamentals including BGP, OSPF, VLAN/VRF, WAN and high-availability
- Production troubleshooting across packets, logs, telemetry, configs, circuits and physical infrastructure
- Experience with network observability using SNMP, syslog, NetFlow, packet capture, ELK, Grafana
- Strong network security fundamentals including ACLs, firewalls, VPN, 802.1X/NAC and segmentation
- Ability to automate infrastructure with Python, Go, Terraform, Ansible, APIs, Git and CI/CD
- Experience with enterprise wireless and cloud or hybrid connectivity
- Clear communication and ability to own outcomes while partnering across teams
- remote policy
- Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
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