Senior DevOps Engineer - AI Frontier CI/CD & Monorepo

Engg; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI’s Hardware organization seeks an engineer to define and build scalable CI/CD and GitOps infrastructure for frontier models running on OpenAI’s custom accelerators. You will work across model workloads, accelerator software, systems infrastructure, and developer productivity, shaping monorepo architecture, test strategies, and performance baselines to accelerate safe production readiness.

You will collaborate with model, compiler, kernel, runtime, firmware, validation, and hardware teams

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating CI/CD or production engineering systems.
• Familiarity with GitOps, release promotion, rollback, reproducibility, and automation policies.
• Ability to design monorepos, build systems, dependency graphs, and change-impact analysis.

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

Python

Go

Rust

Distributed systems

Tools

Git

Kubernetes

CI tools

Job description

OpenAI’s Hardware organization seeks an engineer to define and build scalable CI/CD and GitOps infrastructure for frontier models running on OpenAI’s custom accelerators. You will work across model workloads, accelerator software, systems infrastructure, and developer productivity, shaping monorepo architecture, test strategies, and performance baselines to accelerate safe production readiness.

You will collaborate with model, compiler, kernel, runtime, firmware, validation, and hardware teams