Used Tools & Technologies
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Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Python @ 3
CI/CD @ 3
Hiring @ 3
Rust @ 3
Debugging @ 3
PyTorch @ 3
AI @ 3
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
About the Team
We’re hiring software engineers to make OpenAI’s Model Performance teams more productive. These teams work on the systems, tooling, and infrastructure that help improve model performance across OpenAI’s training and inference workloads at frontier scale.
About the Role
We’re looking for an autonomous, high-ownership developer productivity engineer who cares deeply about helping other engineers move faster, safer, and with more confidence. This role sits within OpenAI’s Model Performance organization, contributing to developer infrastructure, CI systems, testing workflows, tooling, and broader performance infrastructure efforts. There is also a strong opportunity to contribute to the Triton project and help improve the systems that support performance-critical engineering work across OpenAI.
Responsibilities
- Improve development workflows for engineers working on model performance infrastructure
- Design and improve CI/CD, release, validation, and testing pipelines
- Build and maintain tools that improve reliability, iteration speed, and engineering confidence
- Partner closely with engineers to identify friction in testing, debugging, deployment, and development workflows
- Contribute to infrastructure efforts that support performance-critical training and inference systems
- Help improve developer experience across Python-heavy codebases and performance-oriented infrastructure
- Work in a high-context, ambiguous environment where ownership and good judgment matter
Requirements / Preferred Experience
- Strong experience with CI/CD, developer infrastructure, testing systems, tooling, or build/release workflows
- Strong Python skills and experience building reliable, scalable developer tools and infrastructure
- Experience improving large-scale engineering workflows, especially around CI reliability, test infrastructure, and debugging velocity
- Highly collaborative and comfortable partnering deeply with technical teams
- Self-directed and comfortable operating with ambiguity
- Experience in the PyTorch ecosystem is highly relevant
- Experience with C++ or Rust is nice-to-have but not required
- Interest in contributing to Triton and performance-oriented systems (experience not required)
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave and paid medical/caregiver leave
- Paid time off (flexible PTO for exempt employees) and 13+ paid company holidays
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits (charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)