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AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits humanity

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer for their Evals Infrastructure team within the Safety Systems department. This role is crucial for ensuring the safe deployment of AI models and maintaining infrastructure reliability. The position sits within the Preparedness team, which focuses on identifying and mitigating risks associated with frontier AI models.

The role combines site reliability engineering with AI safety, requiring expertise in scaling infrastructure and implementing robust monitoring systems. You'll be responsible for maintaining and enhancing system stability while supporting OpenAI's mission to develop safe AGI. The position offers a competitive salary of $310,000 plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

Key responsibilities include scaling evaluation infrastructure, implementing monitoring systems, and maintaining service level objectives. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams, participating in on-call rotations and production readiness reviews. The ideal candidate brings 7+ years of software engineering experience, strong cloud infrastructure knowledge, and expertise with tools like Kubernetes and observability platforms.

This San Francisco-based position offers an opportunity to work at the forefront of AI development while ensuring system reliability and safety. You'll join a team dedicated to preparing for and mitigating risks associated with increasingly capable AI systems. The role combines technical expertise with the broader mission of ensuring AI benefits humanity safely and effectively.

OpenAI provides comprehensive benefits including medical insurance, mental health support, generous parental leave, and learning opportunities. They foster an inclusive culture and are committed to considering diverse perspectives in AI development.

Senior SRE role at OpenAI focusing on infrastructure reliability and AI safety, offering $310K plus equity and comprehensive benefits in San Francisco.

Software Engineer, Evals Infrastructure (Preparedness)

AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Research Engineer for their robotics initiative to develop foundational models and shape the direction of early-stage robotics efforts. This role is part of a team focused on expanding the capabilities of foundational models for general-purpose robotics in dynamic, real-world environments. The team works across the entire robotics stack, integrating cutting-edge hardware, sensors, and models.

The position offers a competitive compensation package of $440K-$530K plus equity and comprehensive benefits. Based in San Francisco with a hybrid work model (3 days in office), the role involves owning research agendas, implementing technical solutions, and collaborating across teams.

The ideal candidate will have strong research credentials in robotics and AI, leadership experience, and the ability to thrive in an evolving environment. You'll work on cutting-edge challenges in robotics, including action generation, motion planning, world modeling, and real-time communication through voice and emotions.

OpenAI provides an inclusive environment committed to ensuring AI benefits humanity, offering comprehensive benefits including medical coverage, mental health support, generous parental leave, and learning opportunities. Join a team at the forefront of AI and robotics innovation, working to create safe and capable robotic systems that can positively impact the world.

Senior Research Engineer position at OpenAI focusing on robotics and AI development, offering competitive compensation and the opportunity to shape the future of robotic systems.

Senior Research Engineer, Robotics

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Research Engineer for their robotics initiative to develop foundational models and shape the direction of early-stage robotics efforts. This role involves working across the entire robotics stack, integrating cutting-edge hardware, sensors, and models to explore diverse robotic form factors. The team's mission is to expand foundational model capabilities for general-purpose robotics in dynamic, real-world environments.

The position offers an opportunity to work with state-of-the-art technology while developing models that combine intelligence with physical skills. You'll be part of a team focused on capabilities including action generation, motion planning, world modeling, and real-time communication through voice and emotions.

As a research engineer, you'll lead research initiatives, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor team members. The role requires expertise in robotics, foundational models, and machine learning, with experience in team management. The position offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and the chance to work on cutting-edge AI technology that aims to benefit humanity.

Working in a hybrid model from San Francisco, you'll join a company committed to ensuring AI systems are created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional growth, comprehensive benefits, and the chance to shape the future of robotics and AI technology.

Senior Research Engineer position at OpenAI focusing on robotics research and development of foundational models for general-purpose robotics applications.

OpenAI is seeking an experienced Solutions Engineer to join their Technical Success team, focusing on the Public Sector division. This role combines technical expertise with customer-facing responsibilities, helping government agencies, policymakers, and public institutions leverage OpenAI's powerful AI tools and products. Based in Washington, DC, this hybrid position offers a competitive salary range of $198K-$252K plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

The ideal candidate will bring 7+ years of technical pre-sales experience, with strong capabilities in Python, JavaScript, and REST APIs. They'll serve as a crucial bridge between OpenAI's cutting-edge AI technology and public sector needs, delivering technical expertise while ensuring responsible AI adoption. The role involves building demos, scoping use cases, and providing architectural guidance to help organizations transform their operations through AI solutions.

Working in a hybrid model (3 days in office), you'll collaborate with various teams including Public Sector Go-to-Market, Policy/Global Affairs, and GRC teams. The position offers extensive benefits including comprehensive healthcare, mental health support, generous parental leave, and professional development opportunities. This is an exceptional opportunity to impact how AI benefits society through public sector applications.

The role demands a unique blend of technical acumen, communication skills, and public sector understanding. You'll be responsible for demonstrating how ChatGPT and OpenAI API can deliver substantial business value while addressing security and compliance requirements. This position is perfect for someone who combines technical expertise with a passion for public service and AI innovation.

Solutions Engineer role at OpenAI focusing on public sector partnerships, requiring 7+ years of technical pre-sales experience and expertise in AI implementation.

Solutions Engineer, Public Sector

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Support Engineer Leader to build and scale their Support Engineering team in Dublin, Ireland. This pivotal role involves leading one of the best technical troubleshooting teams, working directly with strategic enterprise accounts and engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges. The position offers an unique opportunity to shape the future of AI support at OpenAI, managing a global team providing 24x7 technical coverage.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in technical leadership, with a strong background in software engineering and customer support. They will be responsible for building and managing a team of technical experts who serve as the last line of defense before core engineering teams. This role requires someone who can balance technical expertise with leadership skills, capable of developing team members while maintaining strong relationships with customers and cross-functional teams.

Working in a hybrid model (3 days in office), the position offers the chance to be at the forefront of AI technology, working with innovative customers building cutting-edge AI solutions. The role demands someone who can thrive in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple projects simultaneously, and drive performance improvements across the organization.

OpenAI provides a unique opportunity to work with state-of-the-art AI technology while contributing to the company's mission of ensuring AI benefits humanity. The company offers a collaborative environment focused on pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities while maintaining a strong emphasis on safety and human needs.

Lead OpenAI's Support Engineering team in Dublin, managing global technical support for enterprise API customers and driving technical excellence in AI solutions.

Senior Support Engineer Leader - Dublin

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI's ideas safely to the world! The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI's technology to consumers and businesses. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.

As OpenAI continues to grow, we are looking for experienced, problem-solving engineers to ensure our systems scale. Our success depends on our ability to quickly iterate on products while also ensuring that they are performant and reliable. You will work in a deeply iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure it's delivered with safety and reliability in mind. Successful candidates will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems as we continue to expand.

In this role, you will:
- Design and implement solutions to ensure the scalability of our infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demands.
- Collaborate with development teams to make the systems they design and operate more reliable.
- Implement and manage monitoring systems to proactively identify issues and anomalies in our production environment.
- Develop and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs) to measure and ensure system reliability.
- Implement fault-tolerant and resilient design patterns to minimize service disruptions.
- Build and maintain automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and improve system reliability.
- Partner with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents and ensure 24/7 system availability.

Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Proven experience as a reliability engineer or a similar role in a fast-paced, rapidly scaling company.
- Strong proficiency in cloud infrastructure.
- Proficiency in programming/scripting languages.
- Experience with containerization technologies and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with observability tools such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk and ELK stack.
- Experience with microservices architecture and service mesh technologies.
- Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.

This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer, Reliability to ensure system scalability, reliability, and performance as the company grows.

Software Engineer, Reliability

AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Our team is responsible for the post-training phase of ChatGPT, transforming large pre-trained models into powerful, safe, and user-friendly chatbots. We're seeking an engineer to accelerate the deployment of improvements to our models. You'll collaborate with diverse teams handling various facets of the system, including core capabilities, multimodal integration, and tools. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of ChatGPT, working across the technology stack.

Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the regular release process of ChatGPT and API models
- Diagnosing and resolving systems and ML issues in large ML codebases
- Ensuring a stable, smooth, and user-friendly model development process
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design new features and integrate enhancements

The ideal candidate has a robust technical background in data technologies, reliable software engineering, production ML model development, and cross-functional collaboration. A deep understanding of ML fundamentals and large-scale deep learning is essential. Excellent communication and project management skills are crucial.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.

Join us in shaping the future of technology and ensuring that the benefits of AI are widely shared.

OpenAI seeks a Post-training Model Fusion Research Engineer to enhance ChatGPT's capabilities and lead deployment improvements.

Post-training - Model Fusion Research Engineer

The Frontiers Infrastructure team at OpenAI builds low-level framework components to power ML training systems. They focus on creating robust, debuggable, high-performance libraries to support distributed training workloads. The team's priorities are maximizing researcher productivity and hardware efficiency to accelerate progress towards AGI.

As a Frontiers Infrastructure Engineer, you'll work on delivering powerful APIs that orchestrate thousands of computers for moving and persisting vast amounts of data. This role requires creating easy-to-use, introspectible systems that promote fast debugging and development cycles while scaling to the newest supercomputers with stability and performance.

Key responsibilities include:
- Working across the Python stack
- Profiling, optimizing, and designing for scale in compute and data capabilities
- Building and maintaining tools used by researchers
- Deploying the training framework to the latest supercomputers, rapidly responding to changing ML system needs

The ideal candidate should:
- Have experience with large distributed systems
- Love figuring out how systems work and continuously improve them
- Enjoy accelerating research
- Possess strong software engineering skills and proficiency in Python

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. OpenAI offers relocation assistance to new employees and is committed to diversity, equal opportunity, and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Join OpenAI in shaping the future of technology and ensuring that the benefits of AI are widely shared.

OpenAI seeks a Frontiers Infrastructure Engineer to build powerful APIs for ML training systems, optimizing performance and scalability.

Frontiers Infrastructure Engineer

The Applied Infrastructure team at OpenAI designs, builds, and operates the foundational infrastructure that powers ChatGPT and the API. As a Software Engineer in Infrastructure, you will:

- Design and build development and production platforms for reliability and security at scale
- Accelerate engineering productivity with excellent tooling and systems
- Partner with product engineers to lay technical foundations for new features and research capabilities
- Guide product engineering teams on best practices for observable, scalable systems
- Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture
- Participate in on-call rotation for critical incidents

You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have 8+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years in infrastructure
- Care deeply about building a diverse, equitable, inclusive culture
- Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
- Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
- Have a strong desire to learn and share knowledge effectively

Technologies you'll work with include Kubernetes, Python, FastAPI, Cosmos DB, Postgres, and Terraform.

This role is exclusively based in the San Francisco HQ, with relocation assistance available. OpenAI is committed to safety, diversity, and using AI to benefit humanity.

Join OpenAI as a Software Engineer in Infrastructure to build and operate foundational systems for ChatGPT and API.

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

The Sora team at OpenAI is working on making video a key capability of OpenAI's foundation models. As a Distributed Training Engineer for Sora, you will work on improving the training throughput for our internal training framework and enable researchers to experiment with new ideas. This role requires strong engineering skills, the ability to write bug-free machine learning code, and deep knowledge of supercomputer performance.

Key responsibilities include:
- Collaborating with researchers to develop systems-efficient video models and architectures
- Applying the latest techniques to achieve impressive hardware efficiency for training runs
- Profiling and optimizing the training framework

The ideal candidate should have experience with multi-modal ML pipelines, strong software engineering skills (particularly in Python), experience with understanding and optimizing training kernels, and a passion for understanding stable training dynamics.

OpenAI offers a competitive compensation package, including a salary range of $295K – $440K, generous equity, and comprehensive benefits such as medical insurance, mental health support, 401(k) matching, unlimited time off, and paid parental leave.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. OpenAI is committed to diversity, equality, and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Join OpenAI as a Distributed Training Engineer for Sora, working on cutting-edge video AI models and optimizing training frameworks.

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