Platform Engineer, Model Deployment & Scale

OpenAI

Greater London

On-site

GBP 194,000 - 280,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

OpenAI in London seeks a Software Engineer to design and operate large-scale production systems that manage model lifecycles and deployments.

You will build platform capabilities, automate workflows, and improve reliability and developer experience across OpenAI's model deployment stack.

This role offers ownership from design through production and thrives in fast-moving environments.

Qualifications

  • Five or more years of software engineering experience building production infrastructure.
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Python, C++, Rust, or a comparable language.
  • Experience designing or operating highly available distributed systems.
  • Experience with platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, production engineering, site reliability engineering, or similar disciplines.
  • Strong systems design, debugging, and operational problem-solving skills.
  • Strong communication skills and experience collaborating across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve the platform used to deploy, configure, and manage models across ChatGPT.
  • Develop systems for deployment orchestration, model rollouts, operational visibility, and production readiness.
  • Create abstractions and tooling that simplify complex infrastructure and improve the developer experience.
  • Automate operational workflows, including incident detection, diagnosis, mitigation, and recovery.
  • Improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of model deployments and the infrastructure that supports them.
  • Build systems that support capacity planning, resource allocation, and infrastructure utilization.
  • Partner with research, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to identify common challenges and deliver reusable platform capabilities.
  • Shape the technical direction of the model management platform as ChatGPT and its underlying systems continue to evolve.

Skills

Go
Python
C++
Rust
Distributed systems

Job description

OpenAI in London seeks a Software Engineer to design and operate large-scale production systems that manage model lifecycles and deployments.

You will build platform capabilities, automate workflows, and improve reliability and developer experience across OpenAI's model deployment stack.

This role offers ownership from design through production and thrives in fast-moving environments.

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