Software Engineer, Fleet Management

The role

You will build systems to manage hardware, configurations, vendors, and people interacting with infrastructure. You will design and develop solutions that integrate individual nodes and servers into unified clusters.

What you will do

• Design and build systems to manage both cloud and bare-metal fleets at scale.
• Develop tools that integrate low-level hardware metrics with high-level job scheduling and cluster management algorithms.
• Leverage LLMs to coordinate vendor operations and optimize infrastructure workflows.
• Automate infrastructure processes, reducing repetitive toil and improving system reliability.
• Collaborate with hardware, infrastructure, and research teams to ensure seamless integration across the stack.
• Continuously improve tools, automation, processes, and documentation to enhance operational efficiency.

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills with experience in large-scale infrastructure environments.
• Broad knowledge of cluster-level systems (e.g., Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, cloud providers).
• Deep expertise in server-level systems (e.g., systems, containerization, Chef, Linux kernels, firmware management, host routing).

Nice to have

• Passionate about optimizing the performance and reliability of large compute fleets.
• Thrive in dynamic environments and are eager to solve complex infrastructure challenges.
• Value automation, efficiency, and continuous improvement in everything you build.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

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