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Software Engineer, Productivity - Networking

OpenAI · San Francisco

$230k - $385k/yrMid levelEngineeringScalingRuntimePosted 3 months ago
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ABOUT THE TEAM We’re hiring software engineers to make OpenAI’s networking teams more productive. These teams build and operate the high-performance networking systems that support OpenAI’s training and inference infrastructure at frontier scale. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for someone who cares deeply about the developer experience of engineers working on complex infrastructure systems - especially around build systems, test architecture, release pipelines, and reliable development workflows. This role will be embedded with OpenAI’s networking team: making it faster, safer, and easier for engineers to build, test, validate, and ship changes across multi-server, networked, and hardware-adjacent environments. In this role you will: - Improve development workflows for engineers building and operating OpenAI’s networking systems - Design and improve continuous deployment, release, and validation pipelines - Build and maintain test harnesses for multi-server, networked, and hardware-backed environments - Improve iteration speed across C++, Python, and build-system-heavy codebases - Partner with engineers to identify friction in CI, testing, debugging, and deployment workflows - Drive testing and reliability strategy for infrastructure components that support large-scale training and inference workloads - Work closely with centralized developer experience teams while staying deeply embedded with the networking engineers closest to the systems You might thrive in this role if: - You are motivated by helping other engineers move faster and with more confidence - You have experience with CI/CD, release pipelines, testing infrastructure, or build systems - You are comfortable moving between C++, Python, and build systems such as CMake, Bazel, or Blaze - You enjoy building test harnesses, automation, and workflow improvements for complex systems - You do not need to be a networking expert, but you are excited to learn enough about the domain to make the team meaningfully mor

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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