Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

OpenAI
San Francisco, New York, London
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 230,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration"]

Join OpenAI’s Agent Infrastructure team to build and scale AI training and production systems for agentic models. You’ll work with research and product to stand up infrastructure, container orchestration, and platform integrations, enabling large-scale training and deployment for OpenAI’s agent products across world-class compute clusters in a hybrid office setting.

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Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Join OpenAI’s Agent Infrastructure team to build and scale AI training and production systems for agentic models. You’ll work with research and product to stand up infrastructure, container orchestration, and platform integrations, enabling large-scale training and deployment for OpenAI’s agent products across world-class compute clusters in a hybrid office setting.
Location: San Francisco, New York, London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Push massive compute clusters to their limits; contribute to a container orchestration platform built in-house to scale beyond standard systems.
  • •Develop and maintain FastAPI and gRPC APIs that serve as the interface for agentic infrastructure used 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.
  • •Engage with researchers and product teams to build scalable production platforms for agents running at scale.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 230,000 - 385,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Deep experience building AI infrastructure and working with researchers to scale training on massive compute clusters.
  • •Ability to design and implement 0-1 capabilities and scale them to 1,000,000x.
  • •Strong focus on performance and optimization for globally distributed systems.
  • •Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
  • •Interest in solving complex problems at the intersection of infrastructure scalability, virtualization, and agentic capabilities.
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingCollaboration
Tech Stack:FastAPIGRPCTerraformKubernetesContainerizationKataFirecrackerGVisorSysbox

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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Glassdoor: 4.4
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