2 months ago
Base Salary
$255k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate reliable infrastructure for research workloads and research-facing services.
- Support and improve data infrastructure, processing, crawl and ingest, caching, search, observability, and clusterwide services.
- Improve cluster bootstrapping, provisioning, automation, and deployment workflows.
- Debug issues across networking, compute, storage, orchestration, and service reliability layers.
- Build software and automation that reduce manual operational work and improve system reliability.
- Partner with researchers, infrastructure engineers, and service owners to translate system needs into durable solutions.
- Evolve infrastructure toward more scalable, maintainable, and standard patterns.
- Own critical systems and drive work independently from problem definition through execution.
Requirements
- Strong systems fundamentals and an understanding of how infrastructure scales in practice.
- Comfort with Linux, networking, Kubernetes, provisioning, and distributed systems operations.
- Ability to write software that automates, debugs, and improves infrastructure systems.
- Ability to independently drive ambiguous infrastructure work with strong execution and ownership.
- Pragmatic judgment about building custom systems versus using existing, well-supported tools.
- Preferred experience with PXE boot, cluster provisioning, bare-metal infrastructure, or large-scale fleet management.
- Preferred experience operating Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems at scale.
- Preferred experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, or deployment automation.
- Preferred experience supporting search infrastructure, data platforms, ingest systems, or large-scale research workflows.
- Preferred experience with Git-based workflows and internal developer tooling.
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About OpenAI
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.