DevOps Engineer for Frontier AI CI/CD on AI Accelerators

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 327,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan with employer 1

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Relocation support

Learning and development stipend

Daily meals in offices

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an experienced Engineer to define and build CI/CD systems that qualify frontier models on our custom accelerators. You will establish scalable CI/CD, GitOps, and monorepo practices, and partner with cross‑functional teams to shorten feedback loops without compromising production readiness.

You will design regression and benchmarking pipelines, create test matrices, and develop reliable baselines and ownership for failures.

Qualifications

• Have built or operated large‑scale CI/CD, developer infrastructure, test automation, or production engineering systems.
• Understand GitOps, release promotion, rollback, reproducibility, and policy‑driven automation.
• 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.
• Proficient in Python, Go, Rust, C++, or another language used to build reliable infrastructure.
• Have worked with distributed systems, schedulers, containers, clusters, or heterogeneous compute infrastructure.
• Collaborate with model and systems engineers to turn complex accelerator workloads into repeatable production qualification.
• Care deeply about reliability, observability, developer experience, and reducing time from code change to signal.

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 pipelines

GitOps

Monorepos

Regression & benchmarking

Python

Go

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Automation

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Container orchestration

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an experienced Engineer to define and build CI/CD systems that qualify frontier models on our custom accelerators. You will establish scalable CI/CD, GitOps, and monorepo practices, and partner with cross‑functional teams to shorten feedback loops without compromising production readiness.

You will design regression and benchmarking pipelines, create test matrices, and develop reliable baselines and ownership for failures.