Network Engineer

Academic Key; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Pension plan with employer contrib.

Maternity/Paternity leave

Learning & development stipend

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Network Engineer in London to design, operate and automate secure networks across offices, labs and cloud environments. You will balance strategic platform work with incident response and deliver secure connectivity for production services.

You will own end-to-end network services, leverage IaC, Git workflows and CI/CD to reduce recurring reactive work, and participate in a hybrid work model with relocation support.

Qualifications

• End-to-end ownership of secure enterprise routing, switching, wireless, WAN and cloud connectivity.
• Experience balancing platform improvement with incident response and operational delivery.
• Proficiency in software-driven networks using IaC, Git workflows and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, troubleshoot and automate secure networks across offices, labs and cloud environments.
• Own end-to-end network services with a focus on security, reliability and observability.

Skills

Network engineering

Enterprise routing

Switching

Wireless

WAN

Cloud connectivity

Automation

Observability

Security

IaC

Tools

Git

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

About the Team OpenAI’s Network Security team designs and operates the secure, reliable connectivity behind our offices, labs, campuses, cloud environments, people, and devices. We combine strong network fundamentals with automation, observability, and close partnership across IT, Security, Research, Applied, and business teams. About the Role As a Network Engineer, you will design, operate, troubleshoot, and automate secure, reliable networks across offices, labs, cloud connectivity, and production services. You will balance strategic platform work—architecture, standards, roadmaps, lifecycle planning, and automation—with responsive operations such as incidents, escalations, break/fix, and time-sensitive delivery. We’re looking for broad network engineers who meet users where they are, lead with curiosity, own outcomes end-to-end, move with urgency grounded in security, and iterate with purpose. You will turn operational signals and recurring reactive work into durable systems and standards. In this role, you will: End-to-end ownership of secure enterprise routing, switching, wireless, WAN, network services, and cloud connectivity. A deliberate balance of strategic platform improvement and responsive troubleshooting, change safety, incident response, and operational delivery. Purposeful iteration through software, APIs, Infrastructure-as-Code, Git workflows, testing, and CI/CD that reduces recurring reactive work. You might thrive in this role if you have: End-to-end ownership of secure enterprise routing, switching, wireless, WAN, network services, and cloud connectivity. A deliberate balance of strategic platform improvement and responsive troubleshooting, change safety, incident response, and operational delivery. Purposeful iteration through software, APIs, Infrastructure-as-Code, Git workflows, testing, and CI/CD that reduces recurring reactive work. Compensation, Benefits and Perks This is a position with OpenAI UK Ltd., which controls the hiring and management of this position. Total compensation includes a competitive salary, generous equity, and benefits. Private medical insurance covering 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents Pension plan with 4% employer contribution 52 weeks of maternity leave and 24 weeks of parental leave Unlimited time off Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 USD equivalent per year) This role is based in London, UK. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement . Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form . No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link . OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be