OpenAI

Software Engineer, Agent Platform

OpenAI
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5 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$230k - $385k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate production services that enable agents to execute code, use tools, and interact with external systems.
  • Design APIs and platform abstractions for agentic product development.
  • Develop orchestration systems for agent execution, state, resource allocation, retries, and recovery.
  • Improve reliability, latency, efficiency, observability, and capacity through performance optimization and operational practices.
  • Partner with product, research, security, and infrastructure teams to bring agent capabilities into production.
  • Own systems across design, implementation, rollout, monitoring, and ongoing operation.

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating large-scale backend services, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
  • Ability to build shared platforms and APIs and evolve prototypes into reliable services at scale.
  • Strong understanding of system performance, concurrency, failure modes, and resource management.
  • Ability to work across service boundaries and solve problems collaboratively from end to end.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, containers, orchestration systems, or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
  • Interest in secure execution environments, sandboxing, and running agent workloads in production.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring three days per week in the San Francisco office.
  • Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.

Tech Stack

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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