Software Engineer, Codex Core Agents
OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City · Seattle · London, UK
CHECKED 35M AGO
Frontier labonsite$230k–$385k
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