Software Engineer, DevOps

📋 Job Overview

OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform.

🏢 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 diverse perspectives.

🎯 The Role

You will define and build the CI/CD systems that qualify frontier models and the software stack running on OpenAI’s custom AI accelerators. Your work will make correctness, performance, and stability measurable on every change, from individual commits through production releases.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Define the model CI strategy for frontier models running on OpenAI custom silicon and integrated accelerator systems.
• Build production CI/CD pipelines for functional regression, performance benchmarking, software stability, and release qualification.
• Design representative test matrices across models, configurations, hardware generations, software components, and deployment environments.
• Create reliable performance baselines, regression detection, bisect and triage workflows, and clear ownership for failures.
• Establish GitOps practices for reproducible configuration, promotion, rollback, auditability, and environment consistency.
• Shape monorepo architecture, dependency management, build and test boundaries, change validation, and developer workflows at scale.
• Develop scalable orchestration, artifact management, caching, scheduling, observability, and capacity controls for accelerator-backed CI.
• Partner with model, compiler, kernel, runtime, firmware, validation, and hardware teams to translate release risks into automated gates.
• Improve CI reliability, speed, debuggability, and cost efficiency while maintaining high confidence in production software.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Have built or operated large-scale CI/CD, developer infrastructure, test automation, or production engineering systems.
• Understand modern software delivery practices, including GitOps, release promotion, rollback, reproducibility, and policy-driven automation.
• Have experience designing monorepos, build systems, dependency graphs, test selection, or change-impact analysis.
• Can design regression and performance-benchmarking systems with stable baselines, useful metrics, and actionable failure diagnosis.
• Are proficient in Python, Go, Rust, C++, or another language used to build reliable infrastructure and automation.
• Have worked with distributed systems, schedulers, containers, clusters, or heterogeneous compute infrastructure.
• Can collaborate with model and systems engineers to turn complex accelerator workloads into repeatable production qualification.
• Care deeply about reliability, observability, developer experience, and reducing time from code change to trustworthy signal.

🎁 Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

• To comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements as provided in those laws and regulations.