Software Engineer, Productivity - Networking

Details

OpenAI is hiring software engineers to improve the productivity of networking teams that build and operate high-performance networking systems supporting training and inference infrastructure at frontier scale.

The role focuses on developer experience for engineers working on complex infrastructure systems, including build systems, test architecture, release pipelines, and reliable development workflows. The engineer will be embedded with the networking team to make it faster, safer, and easier to build, test, validate, and ship changes across multi-server, networked, and hardware-adjacent environments.

Responsibilities

• Improve development workflows for engineers building and operating networking systems.
• Design and improve continuous deployment, release, and validation pipelines.
• Build and maintain test harnesses for multi-server, networked, and hardware-backed environments.
• Improve iteration speed across C++, Python, and build-system-heavy codebases.
• Partner with engineers to identify friction in CI, testing, debugging, and deployment workflows.
• Drive testing and reliability strategy for infrastructure components supporting large-scale training and inference workloads.
• Work closely with centralized developer experience teams while remaining embedded with networking engineers.

Requirements

• Motivation to help other engineers move faster and with greater confidence.
• Experience with CI/CD, release pipelines, testing infrastructure, or build systems.
• Comfort working with C++, Python, and build systems such as CMake, Bazel, or Blaze.
• Experience building test harnesses, automation, and workflow improvements for complex systems.
• Willingness to learn the networking domain sufficiently to improve team effectiveness.
• A problem-solving approach focused on addressing underlying causes of slow builds, flaky tests, brittle release processes, painful debugging, and unclear validation.
• Pragmatism and the ability to balance high standards with forward progress.
• Ability to work end-to-end across engineers, workflows, codebases, and operational realities.
• Self-direction and comfort operating with ambiguity in a high-context infrastructure environment.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Base salary of $230,000–$385,000 per year.
• Equity and performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for health and dependent care expenses, as well as commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, paid company holidays, office closures, and paid sick or safe time as required by law.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.