Research Infrastructure Engineer - Data Pipelines

Triwill Group

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure that supports frontier research and critical research-facing systems. You will work on systems close to the metal and contribute to scalability, reliability, and automation.

You will reason about networking, bootstrapping, Kubernetes, and deployment workflows, write software to improve infrastructure, and own projects from problem definition to execution while collaborating with researchers and engineers.

Qualifications

Strong systems fundamentals and understanding of how infrastructure scales.
Experience with Linux, networking, Kubernetes, provisioning, and distributed systems operations.
Ability to write software to automate, debug, and improve infrastructure systems.
Independent, ownership mindset with ability to drive ambiguous infrastructure work.
Experience supporting research tooling and platform services.

Responsibilities

Build and operate reliable infrastructure for research workloads and research-facing services.
Support and improve systems across data infrastructure, processing, crawl and ingest, caching, search, observability, and clusterwide services.
Improve cluster bootstrapping, provisioning, automation, and deployment workflows.
Debug issues across networking, compute, storage, orchestration, and service reliability layers.
Build software and automation that reduce manual operational work and improve system reliability.
Partner closely with researchers, infrastructure engineers, and service owners to understand system needs and translate them into durable solutions.
Help evolve existing infrastructure toward more scalable, maintainable, and standard patterns.
Take ownership of critical systems and drive work independently from problem definition through execution.