Capacity Systems Software Engineer

The role

You will design and develop software systems that connect infrastructure delivery, fleet health, capacity allocation, demand forecasting, and financial planning into a unified system of record. You will build platforms and services to power Industrial Compute planning, forecasting, and operational decision-making.

What you will do

• Design and build software systems that serve as the system of record for Industrial Compute planning and operations.
• Develop backend services, APIs, workflows, and data platforms.
• Build applications connecting infrastructure delivery, fleet health, capacity utilization, product demand, and financial planning.
• Build planning and scenario-modeling systems to understand tradeoffs.
• Create workflow automation and decision-support tooling.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate workflows into software systems.
• Drive architecture decisions across planning platforms and internal infrastructure systems.
• Improve data quality, observability, and operational visibility.
• Build extensible software foundations that scale with infrastructure footprint.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Strong programming experience in Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Experience building distributed systems, backend services, internal platforms, workflow systems, or operational tooling.
• Experience designing APIs, data pipelines, and integrations across multiple systems.
• Strong system design and software architecture skills.
• Experience working with large operational datasets and business-critical workflows.
• Ability to operate effectively in highly cross-functional environments.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to independently drive complex projects.

Nice to have

• Experience building planning systems, forecasting platforms, optimization engines, or decision-support tools.
• Experience with SQL, data warehouses, orchestration frameworks, analytics platforms, and distributed data systems.
• Experience supporting infrastructure, cloud platforms, data centers, hardware deployment programs, or large-scale operational environments.
• Familiarity with capacity planning, supply chain systems, financial modeling, or infrastructure operations.
• Experience replacing spreadsheet-driven workflows with scalable software platforms.
• Experience building systems that support scenario planning, forecasting, optimization, or resource allocation.
• Familiarity with AI infrastructure, hyperscale compute environments, or large-scale distributed systems.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Industrial Compute organization manages compute infrastructure that powers frontier AI.