Capacity Systems Engineer: Forecasting & Optimization

re-zoo-me; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 293,000 - 385,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking a Capacity Systems Software Engineer to design and build the platforms that power Industrial Compute planning, forecasting, and optimization. You will connect infrastructure delivery, fleet health, and financial planning into a unified system of record to guide deployment and investments.

This role focuses on building internal platforms and data-intensive applications that transform planning workflows into scalable software.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Strong programming experience in Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Experience building distributed systems, backend services, internal platforms, workflow systems, or operational tooling.
• Experience designing APIs, data pipelines, and integrations across multiple systems.
• Strong system design and software architecture skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build software systems that serve as the system of record for Industrial Compute planning and operations.
• Develop backend services, APIs, workflows, and data platforms that support capacity forecasting, allocation, deployment readiness, and operational planning.
• Build applications that connect infrastructure delivery, fleet health, capacity utilization, product demand, and financial planning into a shared operational view.
• Build planning and scenario-modeling systems that help leaders understand tradeoffs across capacity, utilization, cost, reliability, launch timing, and business impact.
• Create workflow automation and decision-support tooling that improves planning accuracy and reduces operational overhead.
• Partner with Capacity Planning, Fleet Operations, Product, Finance, Infrastructure Engineering, Supply Chain, and Strategic Sourcing teams to understand operational workflows and translate them into software systems.
• Drive architecture decisions across planning platforms, operational tooling, and internal infrastructure systems.
• Improve data quality, observability, and operational visibility across Industrial Compute programs.
• Build extensible software foundations that scale alongside OpenAI's rapidly growing infrastructure footprint.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

TypeScript

Distributed systems

APIs

Data pipelines

Data platforms

SQL

Tools

APIs

Data pipelines

Data platforms

SQL

Cloud platforms

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking a Capacity Systems Software Engineer to design and build the platforms that power Industrial Compute planning, forecasting, and optimization. You will connect infrastructure delivery, fleet health, and financial planning into a unified system of record to guide deployment and investments.

This role focuses on building internal platforms and data-intensive applications that transform planning workflows into scalable software.