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Software Engineer, Build Systems / CI

OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City · Seattle

CHECKED 35M AGO

Frontier labonsitesenior$185k–$490k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build foundational systems behind ChatGPT and OpenAI's API.
  • Make builds fast, tests trusted, and CI failures easy to fix.
  • Use AI to rethink failure analysis and flaky test debugging.

What they offer

  • Offers Equity

Ideal candidate

Infrastructure-minded engineer with 5+ years building developer tooling who cares deeply about developer experience and velocity. Pragmatic, empathetic partner who turns ambiguous productivity pain into reliable platforms and loves applying AI to developer workflows.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience including developer infrastructure or tooling
  • Hands-on experience with Bazel, Buck, Pants, Gradle or similar build systems
  • Experience building or operating CI systems at scale
  • Comfortable writing, debugging, and operating production platform software
  • Ability to debug distributed build and CI failures across containers and infrastructure
  • Strong cross-team communication and pragmatic approach to platform adoption
  • Passion for developer experience and applying AI to developer infrastructure

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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