OpenAI · 9 hours ago
Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure
Buffalo-Niagara Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior LevelOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Software Engineer on the Agent Infrastructure team, you will build and scale systems to train highly capable agentic models, and develop the platform for launching new agents to millions of users worldwide.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Push massive compute clusters to their limits. You will be a core contributor to a novel container orchestration platform built in-house by our team to scale far beyond what’s possible with systems like Kubernetes
Develop and maintain FastAPI and gRPC APIs that serve as the interface for our agentic infrastructure used both in training and production
Use Terraform to stand up and evolve complex infrastructure for both research and production
Collaborate with research teams to stand up and optimize systems for novel AI training runs and experimental applications
Qualification
Required
Deep experience building AI infrastructure
Experience working closely with researchers to build high-performance systems at massive scale for novel use cases
Experience working on large-scale machine learning infrastructure
Ability to reason about training at scale, identifying bottlenecks and engineering solutions to optimize system performance in training environments
Ability to build new things from 0-1 quickly, and then scale them 1,000,000x
Keen eye for performance and optimization
Familiarity with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code tech like Terraform
Driven by solving complex, ambiguous problems at the intersection of infrastructure scalability, virtualization efficiency, and agentic capabilities
Deep technical expertise in virtualization and containerization technologies (e.g. Kata, Firecracker, gVisor, Sysbox)
Passionate about optimizing runtime performance
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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