Software Engineer – Research Infrastructure & Data Systems

OpenAI; California (MO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in the United States seeks 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, while writing software to improve reliability and automation.

The role requires comfort with Linux, networking, Kubernetes, provisioning, and distributed systems operations, and a penchant for independent, high-ownership work that accelerates researchers.

Qualifications

• Strong systems fundamentals and understanding of how infrastructure scales in practice.
• Comfort with Linux, networking, Kubernetes, provisioning, and distributed systems operations.
• Ability to write software to automate, debug, and improve infrastructure systems.
• Strong execution mindset and ability to independently drive ambiguous infrastructure work.

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 to reduce manual operational work and improve system reliability.
• Collaborate with researchers, infrastructure engineers, and service owners to translate needs into durable solutions.
• Evolve infrastructure toward scalable, maintainable, and standard patterns.
• Take ownership of critical systems from problem definition through execution.

Skills

Systems fundamentals

Linux

Networking

Automation

Independent execution

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git workflows

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

OpenAI in the United States seeks 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, while writing software to improve reliability and automation.

The role requires comfort with Linux, networking, Kubernetes, provisioning, and distributed systems operations, and a penchant for independent, high-ownership work that accelerates researchers.