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Software Engineer, Productivity - Inference Runtime

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 23H AGO

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

Highlights

  • Harden deploy gates ensuring inference engine images are correct and performant.
  • Build automation for failure triage, ownership detection, and safe rollouts.
  • Support model launches across ChatGPT, Codex, API and research workloads.

Ideal candidate

High-ownership engineer with strong developer empathy who loves making other engineers faster and safer. Comfortable with ambiguity and motivated by improving reliability of large-scale production systems.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with CI/CD systems, testing infrastructure, release tooling, or large-scale validation systems
  • Comfortable working in Python-heavy environments and debugging complex distributed systems
  • High ownership and ability to operate in ambiguous areas without a fully predefined roadmap
  • Strong developer empathy with focus on reducing friction and making engineers more effective
  • Experience building automation for failure triage, ownership detection, and escalation
  • Pragmatic, collaborative mindset motivated by helping teams move faster with confidence

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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