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Software Engineer, Codex Core Agents

OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City · Seattle · London, UK

CHECKED 35M AGO

Frontier labonsite$230k–$385k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build sandboxed execution environments powering Codex agents in production.
  • Design orchestration for multi-step, tool-using agent workflows at scale.
  • Optimize tokens, latency, reliability and cost across Codex fleet.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Infrastructure-minded engineer who thrives on ambiguous zero-to-one problems and cares deeply about reliability, performance, and security to turn frontier models into dependable agents.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in distributed systems or infrastructure engineering
  • Experience building systems with containers, sandboxing, or virtualization
  • Comfortable working across backend systems, APIs, and developer tooling
  • Deep care for system reliability, performance, and security
  • Thrives on ambiguous, zero-to-one problems

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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