Hardware Development Infrastructure Engineer

OpenAI

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Research Services 👥 201 employees 📍 San Francisco, CA, US Est. 2015

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with…

Job Overview

OpenAI is seeking a Hardware Development Infrastructure Engineer to build and run the infrastructure that powers OpenAI’s hardware development lifecycle. This role sits at the intersection of hardware, cloud, HPC, DevOps, and data, requiring expertise in designing regression systems, CI/CD pipelines, cloud and cluster platforms, and data foundations.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with hardware teams on workflows and tooling to deliver solutions that reduce manual work and accelerate iteration.
• Build and operate regression systems at scale, improving throughput, reproducibility, and flake reduction.
• Own CI/CD for infrastructure and tooling, including testing, gated deploys, staged rollouts, and safe rollback.
• Run cloud and HPC platforms, tuning scheduling policies, autoscaling, node lifecycles, and cost-performance tradeoffs.
• Build data foundations and visibility through ETL pipelines, databases, and dashboards.
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring, incident response, and documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Familiarity with chip development workflows and at least one deep EDA domain.
• Strong infrastructure fundamentals, including cloud platforms, networking, security, performance, and automation.
• Experience operating cloud environments (Azure preferred) with strong infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Strong programming skills (Python preferred) and solid software engineering and scripting practices.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD systems, including testing and release workflows.
• Database experience (e.g., Postgres or MySQL), including schema design, migrations, indexing, and operational safety.
• Clear communicator with strong judgment and ability to articulate a realistic vision for scalable infrastructure.

About OpenAI

OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is responsible for building the next generation of AI-native silicon while working closely with software and research partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models.

Benefits

OpenAI offers a competitive compensation package including base pay, equity, performance-related bonuses, and comprehensive benefits such as medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) match, paid parental leave, flexible PTO, and more.