CI/CD Architect for Frontier AI Hardware

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a seasoned CI/CD/DevOps engineer to define and build the CI/CD systems that qualify frontier models and the software stack running on our custom AI accelerators. Your work will make correctness, performance, and stability measurable on every change, from commits to production releases.

This role spans model workloads, accelerator software, systems infrastructure, and developer productivity.

Qualifications

• Built or operated large-scale CI/CD, developer infrastructure, test automation, or production engineering systems.
• Understand modern software delivery practices, including GitOps, release promotion, rollback, reproducibility, and policy-driven automation.
• Have experience designing monorepos, build systems, dependency graphs, test selection, or change-impact analysis.
• Can design regression and performance-benchmarking systems with stable baselines, useful metrics, and actionable failure diagnosis.
• Are proficient in Python, Go, Rust, C++, or another language used to build reliable infrastructure and automation.

Responsibilities

• Define the model CI strategy for frontier models running on OpenAI custom silicon and integrated accelerator systems.
• Build production CI/CD pipelines for functional regression, performance benchmarking, software stability, and release qualification.
• Design representative test matrices across models, configurations, hardware generations, software components, and deployment environments.
• Create reliable performance baselines, regression detection, bisect and triage workflows, and clear ownership for failures.
• Establish GitOps practices for reproducible configuration, promotion, rollback, auditability, and environment consistency.
• Shape monorepo architecture, dependency management, build and test boundaries, change validation, and developer workflows at scale.
• Develop scalable orchestration, artifact management, caching, scheduling, observability, and capacity controls for accelerator-backed CI.
• Partner with model, compiler, kernel, runtime, firmware, validation, and hardware teams to translate release risks into automated gates.
• Improve CI reliability, speed, debuggability, and cost efficiency while maintaining high confidence in production software.

Skills

CI/CD

Python

Go

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Tools

GitOps

Monorepo

Kubernetes

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a seasoned CI/CD/DevOps engineer to define and build the CI/CD systems that qualify frontier models and the software stack running on our custom AI accelerators. Your work will make correctness, performance, and stability measurable on every change, from commits to production releases.

This role spans model workloads, accelerator software, systems infrastructure, and developer productivity.