Base Salary
$293k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and scale orchestration, sandboxing, and storage systems for agentic workloads serving Codex, ChatGPT, and the OpenAI API.
- Partner with product engineers to develop platform abstractions that enable rapid product delivery.
- Improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency for long-running agents.
- Deploy services that operate across different environments and clouds.
Requirements
- 9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant roles at technology and product-driven companies.
- Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements through production systems.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability.
- Ability to work across service, platform, and product boundaries while building abstractions for product engineers.
- Comfort working at a fast-moving pace with attention to security and operational excellence.
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.