OpenAI
Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure
$230K–$405K
San Francisco +3 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City
Seattle
London, UK
About the job
Build and optimize the infrastructure platform that provisions, operates, and improves large-scale compute systems for AI research and products.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize reliable system software and infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, orchestration, and fleet health.
- Profile, benchmark, and optimize training workloads and remove performance bottlenecks.
- Develop automation, platform tools, and operational systems; collaborate across research, engineering, security, hardware, and data center teams.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering skills and experience building, operating, or improving production infrastructure systems.
- Experience in one or more relevant areas, such as distributed systems, networking, storage, Kubernetes, high-performance computing, GPU infrastructure, or reliability engineering.
- Ability to debug complex system behavior across software, hardware, networking, and workload layers and make robust improvements.
- Comfort with ambiguity, strong ownership, and a bias toward practical, durable solutions.
Pay
$230K – $405K USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, RDMA, NCCL, GPUs, NICs, CaaS
AI focus
Build and operate compute infrastructure that supports frontier AI research and products, including optimizing demanding AI workloads.
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