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Software Engineer, Codex Core Agents

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about 4 hours ago
London, United Kingdom +3 more
Mid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$230k - $325k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build execution environments for AI agents, including sandboxing and isolation.
  • Develop systems for agent orchestration across multi-step, tool-using workflows.
  • Build infrastructure for running, testing, and debugging code generated by models.
  • Create state and memory systems that allow agents to persist context across long-running tasks.
  • Optimize tokens, latency, reliability, and cost across Codex’s production fleet.
  • Support model rollouts, capacity planning, and manage tradeoffs between quality, speed, and economics.
  • Build shared platform capabilities that unblock product and partner teams.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in distributed systems or infrastructure engineering.
  • Experience building systems involving containers, sandboxing, or virtualization.
  • Comfortable working across backend systems, APIs, and developer tooling.
  • Deep care for system reliability, performance, and security.
  • Enjoy working on ambiguous, zero-to-one problems.
  • Desire to help build systems that turn model capability into dependable software engineering agents.

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AI & MLBackendDevOpsSecurity