Network Engineer

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Network Engineer to design, operate, and continuously improve the global networks that connect offices, labs, campuses, PoPs, cloud environments, people, and devices. The role spans strategic platform engineering and production operations, focusing on architecture, standards, roadmaps, lifecycle planning, and automation while supporting incidents and time-sensitive delivery.

You will partner across IT, Security, AppEng, Research, Applied, workplace teams, carriers, and

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate secure, scalable enterprise networks across offices, labs, campuses, PoPs, cloud connectivity, and hybrid environments.
• Set strategic direction for network services through architecture, standards, roadmaps, lifecycle planning, capacity strategy, and measurable reliability outcomes.
• Own production operations, including on-call, incident response, escalations, and time-sensitive delivery, while protecting user experience.

Job description

About the Team

OpenAI’s Network Engineering team within IT and Security advances the mission of deploying artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of all by delivering secure, scalable, and resilient network services. We build and operate the connectivity that supports OpenAI’s offices, labs, campuses, cloud environments, people, and devices. By combining strong network fundamentals with security, reliability, automation, and user-centered design, we enable impactful AI research, corporate operations, and product innovation.

About the Role

As a Network Engineer at OpenAI, you will design, operate, and continuously improve the global networks that connect our offices, labs, campuses, PoPs, cloud environments, people, and devices. The role spans strategic platform engineering and responsive production operations: you will shape architecture, standards, roadmaps, lifecycle plans, and automation while supporting incidents, escalations, and time-sensitive delivery. Operational signals will inform what we stabilize, simplify, standardize, or automate next. We work backward from user needs, investigate root causes, own outcomes end-to-end, and move quickly without compromising security. We are looking for a versatile engineer who can make pragmatic reliability and security tradeoffs, communicate clearly, and turn recurring operational work into durable platforms, tooling, and standards. You will partner across IT, Security, AppEng, Research, Applied, workplace teams, carriers, and vendors.

In this role, you will:

• Design, implement, and operate secure, scalable enterprise networks across offices, labs, campuses, PoPs, cloud connectivity, and hybrid environments.
• Set strategic direction for network services through architecture, standards, roadmaps, lifecycle planning, capacity strategy, and measurable reliability outcomes.
• Own production operations, including on-call, incident response, escalations, and time-sensitive delivery, while protecting user experience,