Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

The role

You will build and scale systems to train agentic models and develop the platform for launching agents to users. This involves working with massive compute clusters and developing infrastructure for both research and production.

What you will do

• Contribute to a novel in-house container orchestration platform.
• Develop and maintain FastAPI and gRPC APIs.
• Use Terraform to stand up and evolve complex infrastructure.
• Collaborate with research teams to optimize systems for AI training runs and experimental applications.

Required qualifications

• Deep experience building AI infrastructure.
• Experience working closely with researchers to build high-performance systems at massive scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tech like Terraform.
• Deep technical expertise in virtualization and containerization technologies (e.g. Kata, Firecracker, gVisor, Sysbox).

Nice to have

• Experience reasoning about training at scale, identifying bottlenecks and engineering solutions to optimize system performance in training environments.
• Ability to build new things from 0-1 quickly and scale them 1,000,000x.
• Keen eye for performance and optimization in complex, globally-distributed systems.
• Driven by solving complex, ambiguous problems at the intersection of infrastructure scalability, virtualization efficiency, and agentic capabilities.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks 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.