Base Salary
$293k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build backend and infrastructure systems that extend OpenAI’s API platform into cloud-native environments such as AWS.
- Design and ship cloud-contained products that let customers use OpenAI capabilities while keeping workloads and data within cloud environments.
- Help launch cloud-hosted Codex experiences powered by the OpenAI Responses API.
- Build infrastructure and runtime abstractions for a stateful, cloud-optimized agentic platform.
- Partner with external cloud providers and internal Codex, Research, and Safety Systems teams to deliver production-ready systems.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, observability, and operational maturity of supporting services.
- Help shape the technical direction of a growing engineering organization.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional engineering experience in relevant roles, excluding internships.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript, along with distributed systems concepts.
- Experience building developer tools, especially AI-powered tools, and shaping architectures for different deployment models.
- Experience turning ambiguous, fast-moving technical problems into pragmatic and durable systems.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure primitives and production service ownership.
- Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience collaborating with platform, research, safety, or external partner teams is a plus.
- Interest in AI infrastructure, agentic systems, and developer platforms.
- Interest in AI/ML is welcome but direct experience is not required.
- Ability to navigate loosely defined tasks and manage competing priorities in fast-growing, product-driven companies.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.