Developer Productivity Engineer — Inference Platform

Neura Market; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a Developer Productivity Engineer to support OpenAI’s Inference Runtime teams. The role focuses on scaling engineering systems, safeguards, and developer workflows to enable rapid, reliable model deployment and inference at scale.

You’ll work on tooling for deploy gates, release validation, and production readiness across a demanding inference stack. You’ll collaborate with cross‑functional teams to improve automation, observability, and rollout safety, ensuring images released

Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD systems and large-scale build/validation
• Strong focus on developer productivity and reliability
• Ability to improve tooling and automation across complex stacks

Responsibilities

• Improve deploy gate validation tooling and infrastructure
• Enhance release processes and branching across the inference stack
• Strengthen canary, async, and large-scale validation workflows
• Harden CI, testing, and validation to make failures actionable
• Reduce flaky failures from infrastructure, GPU scheduling, or test environments
• Build automation for triage, ownership detection, debugging, and escalation
• Collaborate with inference teams to improve release quality and rollout safety
• Reduce developer friction in testing and release workflows

Skills

CI/CD systems

Testing infrastructure

Release tooling

Developer productivity

Large-scale build and validation

Tools

Python

C++

Job description

OpenAI is hiring a Developer Productivity Engineer to support OpenAI’s Inference Runtime teams. The role focuses on scaling engineering systems, safeguards, and developer workflows to enable rapid, reliable model deployment and inference at scale.

You’ll work on tooling for deploy gates, release validation, and production readiness across a demanding inference stack. You’ll collaborate with cross‑functional teams to improve automation, observability, and rollout safety, ensuring images released