Software Engineer, IP Infrastructure
OpenAI · San Francisco
Frontier labremote$266k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build systems that securely share research tech with strategic partners.
- Own pipelines moving model weights, configs, code, and container images.
- Join a small collaborative team with direct ownership of key partnerships.
What they offer
- Offers Equity
Ideal candidate
A backend builder who loves owning reliable systems end-to-end and untangling complex integrations. You exercise sound judgment with sensitive work and enjoy collaborating with diverse research and partner teams.
Requirements
- Strong Python skills and experience building, testing, and debugging backend software
- Taken a service, pipeline, or automation project from implementation into production and kept it reliable
- Enjoy investigating how systems fit together and tracing problems across services
- Can turn ambiguous requirements into practical software with sound judgment around sensitive information
- Communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical collaborators and enjoy partner engineering work
- Learn unfamiliar systems quickly and take responsibility for following problems through to resolution
- Experience with cloud services, object storage, containers, or CI/CD is helpful
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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