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Software Engineer, IP Infrastructure

OpenAI · San Francisco

Frontier labremote$266k–$405k
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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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