OpenAI

Software Engineer, Codex Core Agents

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6 months ago
London, United Kingdom +3 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$230k - $325k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build sandboxed, isolated, and reproducible execution environments for AI agents.
  • Develop orchestration systems for multi-step, tool-using agent workflows.
  • Build infrastructure for running, testing, and debugging code generated by models.
  • Create state and memory systems for preserving context across long-running tasks.
  • Optimize token usage, latency, reliability, and cost across the production fleet.
  • Support model rollouts and capacity planning for frontier agents at scale.
  • Build shared platform capabilities for product teams, partner teams, and open source Codex.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in distributed systems or infrastructure engineering.
  • Experience building systems involving containers, sandboxing, or virtualization.
  • Comfort working across backend systems, APIs, and developer tooling.
  • Focus on system reliability, performance, and security.
  • Bonus experience with code execution platforms, CI/CD systems, or build systems.
  • Bonus familiarity with LLMs, agents, or tool-use frameworks.
  • Bonus background in security engineering, isolation systems, developer platforms, IDE tooling, or open source infrastructure.
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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