5+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years in infrastructure tooling for developers.
Empathy for the tools and processes affecting engineering productivity.
Strong desire for learning and sharing knowledge effectively.
Comfortable with ambiguity and adapting to changing circumstances.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and implement tools to increase engineering velocity and quality.
Leverage AI tools to enhance team productivity.
Collaborate with teams to align tools with their workflows and challenges.
Partner with product engineers to enable new features and capabilities.
Guide product engineering teams on best practices for system observability and scalability.
Participate in on-call rotations for system reliability and incident response.
Benefits
Relocation assistance for new employees.
Full Job Description
About the Role
The Engineering Acceleration team designs, builds and maintains the foundational systems that engineers use to build ChatGPT and the API. This is a fast-growing team and you will get a chance to own and define the strategy, vision, and plan for how to increase developer productivity.
In this role, you will:
Drive the design, development, and implementation of tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering velocity, reduce manual effort, and increase the quality of output.
Use our latest AI tools to re-think how we can be the most productive team in the industry.
Work closely with various teams within OpenAI to understand their workflows, challenges, and needs, and ensure the tools and systems built by the Engineering Acceleration team address these requirements.
Bring new features and research capabilities to the world by partnering with product engineers to lay the necessary technical foundations.
Guide and advise product engineering teams on best practices for ensuring observable, scalable systems.
Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have 5+ years of experience in engineering, including 3+ years of experience in infrastructure building tooling for developers.
Have experience-driven empathy for the tools, frustrations, and processes that slow engineering teams down and lead to toil or burnout.
Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills-and an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others.
Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions. You view changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessary.
As technical context: at the heart of our infrastructure is a large-scale deployment of GPU nodes running in dozens of Kubernetes clusters across regions. Some core technologies we build with include Terraform, Buildkite, Postgres, Cosmos DB, Kafka, Python, and FastAPI.
This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employee.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
