Software Engineer, Productivity - Inference Runtime

Responsibilities

• Improve systems that ensure inference engine releases are correct, performant, and regression-free by evolving tooling and infrastructure for deploy gate validation
• Bring rigor to release, validation, branching, and deployment processes across the inference stack
• Harden CI, testing, and validation infrastructure to ensure failures are actionable and trustworthy
• Reduce noisy or flaky failures caused by infrastructure instability, GPU scheduling, or test environment issues
• Build automation for failure triage, ownership detection, debugging, and escalation
• Partner with inference, research, and infrastructure teams to improve release quality and rollout safety
• Reduce developer friction in testing, debugging, and release workflows

Requirements

• Strong experience with CI/CD systems, testing infrastructure, or release tooling
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience debugging complex distributed systems
• Experience with large-scale build and validation systems
• High ownership mindset and ability to work in ambiguous environments

Preferred Qualifications

• C++ experience for working near inference engine code or performance-sensitive systems
• Prior experience with developer productivity or large-scale infrastructure

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Flexible PTO and paid parental leave
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in the office and meal delivery credits
• Generous equity and performance-related bonuses

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.