Robotics Simulation Infrastructure Engineer — In-Person SF

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 385,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Simulation Infrastructure Engineer in San Francisco to build production-grade simulation pipelines for model training, evaluation, and hardware-in-the-loop validation. You will own automation, orchestration, and tool integration to run large-scale simulations efficiently.

This role requires deep software infra experience and proficiency in Python, C++, and Rust, with Kubernetes, distributed queues, and CI systems to design APIs, schedules, and dashboards for system health and

Qualifications

• Deep software engineering & infra experience building scale-ready pipelines.
• Experience with Python/C/C++/Rust and modern tooling in ML/robotics environments.
• Familiarity with container orchestration, distributed task queues, and CI systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain presubmit checks, CI/CD pipelines for simulation code and tasks.
• Automate model evaluation in sim (SIL) and orchestrate HIL runs; compute metrics and dashboards.
• Create robust APIs and connectors for scheduling, seeding, and evaluating batches of simulations.

Skills

Python

C++

Rust

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Distributed systems

APIs

Tools

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Simulation Infrastructure Engineer in San Francisco to build production-grade simulation pipelines for model training, evaluation, and hardware-in-the-loop validation. You will own automation, orchestration, and tool integration to run large-scale simulations efficiently.

This role requires deep software infra experience and proficiency in Python, C++, and Rust, with Kubernetes, distributed queues, and CI systems to design APIs, schedules, and dashboards for system health and