OpenAI
Network Operations Engineer, AI Networking
$157K–$302K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Operates and improves production Ethernet fabrics across data centers that support AI training and inference infrastructure, including GPU clusters, storage, and management systems.
What you'll do
- Monitor and troubleshoot network incidents, execute production changes, and maintain network hardware and software.
- Support AI cluster deployments and capacity expansions; perform incident root-cause analysis and drive corrective actions.
- Improve observability and automate operational tasks using Python and infrastructure automation frameworks.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience operating large-scale data center, cloud, AI, or HPC network infrastructure.
- Experience supporting high-availability production networks and hands-on experience with one or more of Cisco NX-OS, Arista EOS, NVIDIA Spectrum / Cumulus Linux, or Juniper JunOS.
- Knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking, BGP, OSPF, ECMP, MLAG, LACP, VRFs, and VLANs; experience troubleshooting physical network infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience operating AI or HPC networks, NVIDIA AI networking technologies, or GPU infrastructure.
- Experience with RoCE v2 or RDMA Ethernet fabrics, high-speed Ethernet, telemetry, cloud or colocation providers, or network automation.
Pay
USD $157K – $302K base salary
Tools
Cisco NX-OS, Arista EOS, NVIDIA Spectrum / Cumulus Linux, Juniper JunOS, BGP, OSPF, Python, Prometheus
AI focus
Operates and improves network infrastructure supporting AI training and inference, GPU clusters, and AI cluster deployments.
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