Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Experience with CI/CD, release pipelines, testing infrastructure, or build systems
• Proficiency moving between C++, Python, and build systems such as CMake, Bazel, or Blaze
• Experience building test harnesses, automation, and workflow improvements for complex systems
• Ability to operate with ambiguity in a high-context infrastructure environment

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.