About the RoleWe're looking for a software engineer to build and improve the backend services behind these workflows. You'll work primarily in Python, take projects from design through production, and make our systems more reliable and easier to operate as partner integrations evolve.
The work combines hands-on engineering with careful judgment. You'll translate requirements about what can be shared into clear, testable business logic, debug problems across system boundaries, and collaborate with the teams that build and use the underlying infrastructure.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
In this role, you will:- Build and maintain automated pipelines that transfer model weights, configurations, code, and container images between OpenAI and partner environments
- Implement the validation and business logic that determines how artifacts are prepared and shared
- Improve production reliability through testing, monitoring, useful diagnostics, and robust failure handling
- Integrate services with source control, object storage, and build and container tooling, working closely with the owners of shared infrastructure
- Partner with researchers, security teams, and external engineers to understand requirements and resolve integration problems
- Improve existing workflows and use AI tools where they can make the systems we build more effective
You might thrive in this role if you:- Have strong Python skills and experience building, testing, and debugging backend software
- Have taken a service, pipeline, or automation project from implementation into production and helped keep it reliable
- Enjoy investigating how systems fit together and tracing problems across services and dependencies
- Can turn ambiguous requirements into practical software while exercising sound judgment around sensitive information
- Communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical collaborators and enjoy working with partner engineering teams
- Learn unfamiliar systems quickly and take responsibility for following problems through to resolution
- Experience with cloud services, object storage, containers, or CI/CD is helpful. Our work involves tools such as Docker, Bazel, and Buildkite, but prior expertise in every tool or a particular cloud provider is not required.
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
