Software Engineer, System Enablement

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end bring-up and bootstrap path for new systems and compute nodes from bare metal to schedulable fleet capacity.
• Build and maintain golden image and provisioning workflows across lab and production environments.
• Integrate nodes into fleet infrastructure and IaC pipelines using tools like Terraform and Chef.
• Partner with scheduling and platform owners to ensure hardware reachability, network connectivity, and routing.
• Drive registration and inventory correctness to ensure systems are visible and tracked end-to-end.
• Collaborate on implementing baseline health and telemetry signals for automated reporting.
• Debug complex issues across layers including PXE, UEFI/BIOS, BMC, OS, and network reachability.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in systems software development and operating Linux-based infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes cluster operations and node lifecycle management.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management (Terraform, Chef, or Ansible).
• Experience with provisioning and imaging technologies such as PXE, iPXE, and cloud-init.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including L2/L3, routing, DNS, and firewalling.
• Ability to write automation in Python, Go, or Bash to ship operational tooling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience bringing up new hardware platforms (early silicon, servers, or NICs) in a lab setting.
• Multi-cloud operational experience with Azure, GCP, AWS, or OCI.
• Experience building telemetry and health pipelines using agent-based metrics and logging.
• Familiarity with WAN, peering, and multi-site network concepts for cluster deployments.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous equity packages.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave and flexible PTO.
• Daily meals in the office and mental health support.
• Annual learning and development stipend.

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 AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.