OpenAI

Software Engineer, IP Infrastructure

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12 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$266k - $405k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain automated pipelines for transferring model weights, configurations, code, and container images between OpenAI and partner environments.
  • Implement validation and business logic governing how artifacts are prepared and shared.
  • Improve production reliability through testing, monitoring, diagnostics, and robust failure handling.
  • Integrate services with source control, object storage, and build and container tooling.
  • Collaborate with researchers, security teams, infrastructure owners, and external engineers to resolve integration problems.
  • Improve existing workflows and use AI tools where they can make systems more effective.

Requirements

  • Strong Python skills with experience building, testing, and debugging backend software.
  • Experience taking a service, pipeline, or automation project from implementation into production and helping maintain its reliability.
  • Ability to investigate systems, trace problems across services and dependencies, and follow issues through resolution.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into practical software while exercising judgment around sensitive information.
  • Clear communication with technical and nontechnical collaborators and partner engineering teams.
  • Experience with cloud services, object storage, containers, or CI/CD is helpful but not required, and prior expertise with every listed tool or a particular cloud provider is unnecessary.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring three days per week in the San Francisco, California office.
  • Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations available for applicants with disabilities.

Tech Stack

BazelBuildkiteDockerPython

Categories

OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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