Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

About the Team:

Compute Infrastructure builds the platform that turns enormous amounts of compute into a reliable engine for frontier AI. We design, provision, schedule, operate, and optimize the systems that connect accelerators, CPUs, networks, storage, data centers, orchestration software, agent infrastructure, developer tools, and observability into one coherent experience for researchers and product teams.

Our work spans the entire stack: capacity planning and cluster lifecycle, bare-metal automation, distributed systems, Kubernetes and scheduling, deep system optimization, high-performance networking, storage, fleet health, reliability, workload profiling, benchmarking, and the developer experience that lets teams use enormous compute systems with confidence. At this scale, small improvements to communication, scheduling, hardware efficiency, or debugging workflows can compound into meaningful research velocity. We are hiring across Compute Infrastructure rather than for a single narrow team, and we use this opening to match strong engineers to the problems where they can have the most leverage.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have built or operated distributed systems, infrastructure platforms, high-performance computing environments, large-scale networking systems, Kubernetes clusters, developer tools, or production systems with demanding reliability requirements
• Enjoy working across layers of the stack and are comfortable moving between software, hardware, networking, systems performance, reliability, and user needs
• Care about making complex infrastructure understandable, observable, and usable for the people depending on it
• Can diagnose hard problems under real operational pressure while still investing in long-term engineering quality
• Like building leverage for others, whether through APIs, automation, debugging tools, CaaS and agent infrastructure primitives, workflow improvements, or better platform abstractions
• Are motivated by scale, efficiency, reliability, and disciplined measurement through benchmarks, profiles, and production evidence
• Communicate clearly, take ownership, and work well with teams whose constraints and goals differ from your own

About OpenAI

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. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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