Software Engineer, Productivity - Inference Runtime
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labonsite$230k–$385k
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