Software Engineer, IP Infrastructure

The role

You will build and improve backend services for IP infrastructure. You will work primarily in Python to manage automated pipelines for model weights, configurations, code, and container images.

What you will do

• Build and maintain automated pipelines that transfer model weights, configurations, code, and container images
• Implement validation and business logic for artifact preparation and sharing
• Improve production reliability through testing, monitoring, diagnostics, and failure handling
• Integrate services with source control, object storage, and build and container tooling
• Partner with researchers, security teams, and external engineers to resolve integration problems
• Improve existing workflows and use AI tools to make systems more effective

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of experience
• Strong Python skills
• Experience building, testing, and debugging backend software
• Experience taking a service, pipeline, or automation project from implementation into production
• Ability to investigate how systems fit together and trace problems across services and dependencies
• Ability to turn ambiguous requirements into practical software
• Clear communication with technical and nontechnical collaborators

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud services
• Experience with object storage
• Experience with containers
• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with Bazel
• Experience with Buildkite

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.