Software Engineer, Data Acquisition Systems

OpenAI

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 295,000 - 536,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

OpenAI seeks a Software Engineer to build and operate infrastructure enabling frontier research. You will work on near-metal systems, tackle networking, bootstrapping, Kubernetes, scalability, automation, and reliability while writing software to improve these systems over time.

The role favors an independent, high-ownership engineer who enjoys reliability-heavy work and wants to contribute to researchers pursuing novel work.

Qualifications

Strong systems fundamentals and scale understanding.
Experience with Linux, networking, and distributed systems operations.
Ability to write software to automate and improve infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Build and operate reliable infrastructure for research workloads and services.
Improve cluster bootstrapping, provisioning, and deployment workflows.
Debug issues across networking, compute, storage, orchestration, and reliability layers.
Collaborate with researchers and engineers to translate needs into durable solutions.
Drive ownership of critical systems from definition to execution.