Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

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

Join OpenAI's Applied Engineering team as a Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure in San Francisco. You'll be part of the team responsible for running the core infrastructure that supports products like ChatGPT and the API. This is a key engineering position that involves designing and building the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale.

About the Team

The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI's technology to consumers and businesses. The team supports systems including kubernetes clusters, infrastructure deployment, networking stack, cloud abstractions, and more. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale
• Ensure our infrastructure can scale to the next order of magnitude
• Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think
• Participate in on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years building core infrastructure
• Experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale
• Experience building abstractions over cloud platforms
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
• Strong commitment to building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.