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OpenAI · 4 days ago

Software Engineer, Research Infrastructure

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityMid Level

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The role involves designing, implementing, and operating infrastructure systems for model deployment and training on one of the world’s largest GPU fleets, focusing on maximizing GPU utilization and supporting research workflows.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Responsibilities

Design, implement and operate components of our compute fleet including job scheduling, cluster management, snapshot delivery, and CI/CD systems
Interface with researchers and product teams to understand workload requirements
Collaborate with hardware, infrastructure, and business teams to provide a high utilization and high reliability service

Qualification

KubernetesPublic cloud experienceHyperscale compute systemsProgramming skillsAI/ML workloads understandingUser requirements focus

Required

Experience with hyperscale compute systems
Strong programming skills
Experience working in public clouds (especially Azure)
Experience working in Kubernetes
Execution focused mentality paired with a rigorous focus on user requirements

Preferred

Understanding of AI/ML workloads

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Company

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$79B
Key Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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