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Software Engineer at OpenAI

Department: Research

Compensation

$295,000 – $536,000/yr

Location
San Francisco, California
Level
not_specified
Posted

Description

OpenAI is hiring a Software Engineer to build and operate reliable infrastructure supporting frontier and critical research workloads. The role combines systems administration, cluster operations, networking, Kubernetes, provisioning, automation, observability, and reliability engineering, with a focus on debugging complex systems and writing software to reduce manual operational work. The engineer will partner with researchers and service owners, take ownership of critical systems, and help evolve infrastructure toward scalable and maintainable patterns.

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