Software Engineer, Agent Platform
OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City
Frontier labremote$230k–$385k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build production platform powering Codex and tool use in ChatGPT at scale.
- Design APIs and orchestration for agents to execute code and use tools.
- Improve reliability and performance of agent execution environments.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Backend engineer who enjoys turning prototypes into reliable production systems close to users. Comfortable with ambiguity and cross-team collaboration, with care for security, performance, and user experience.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating large-scale backend services, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure
- Ability to turn early prototypes into reliable services that scale with usage
- Strong understanding of system performance, concurrency, failure modes, and resource management
- Comfortable working across service boundaries and collaborating end-to-end
- Interest in secure execution environments and sandboxing for agent workloads
- remote policy
- Hybrid, 3 days in 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
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