Data Acquisition Systems Engineer — Infra & Reliability

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 255,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer on the Data Acquisition (systems) team in San Francisco to build and operate the infrastructure that supports frontier research and critical research-facing systems. You will work on systems close to the metal, addressing networking, bootstrapping, Kubernetes, scalability, automation, and reliability while writing software to improve these systems over time.

This role suits an independent, high-ownership engineer who enjoys reliability-focused infrastructure

Qualifications

• Strong systems fundamentals and understand how infrastructure scales in practice.
• Experience with Linux, networking, Kubernetes, provisioning, and distributed systems operations.
• Ability to write software to automate, debug, and improve infrastructure systems.
• Strong execution mindset to independently drive ambiguous infrastructure work.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the infrastructure supporting frontier research and critical research-facing systems.
• Work on systems close to the metal, focusing on reliability and scalability.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, systems administration, cluster operations, and automation.

Skills

Linux

Kubernetes

Networking

Provisioning

Automation

Distributed systems

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Infrastructure-as-code

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer on the Data Acquisition (systems) team in San Francisco to build and operate the infrastructure that supports frontier research and critical research-facing systems. You will work on systems close to the metal, addressing networking, bootstrapping, Kubernetes, scalability, automation, and reliability while writing software to improve these systems over time.

This role suits an independent, high-ownership engineer who enjoys reliability-focused infrastructure