About the job
Join Our Innovative Team
The Applied Engineering team at OpenAI is dedicated to bridging the gap between research, engineering, product, and design, delivering cutting-edge AI technology to consumers and businesses alike.
As a pivotal member of our team, you will manage the core infrastructure that underpins products such as ChatGPT and our API. This includes overseeing our Kubernetes clusters, infrastructure deployment, networking stack, cloud abstractions, and more.
Our mission is to learn from our deployments and ensure the responsible and safe use of AI technology. We place a higher priority on safety than on unchecked growth.
About Your Role
As a vital contributor to the cloud infrastructure team, you'll be responsible for constructing and maintaining infrastructure abstractions that facilitate swift and scalable product delivery.
This position is based in our San Francisco, CA office.
Your Responsibilities:
- Architect and develop robust development and production platforms that ensure reliability and security at scale.
- Optimize our infrastructure for scalability to meet future demands.
- Foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work culture that encourages open communication and challenges conventional thinking.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain the reliability of the systems we build and respond to critical incidents as necessary.
You Will Excel in This Position If You:
- Possess over 5 years of experience in building core infrastructure.
- Have extensive experience with orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale.
- Are skilled in creating abstractions over cloud platforms.
- Take pride in developing and managing scalable, reliable, and secure systems.
- Thrive in environments characterized by ambiguity and rapid change.
This role is exclusively located at our San Francisco headquarters. We offer relocation assistance to qualified candidates.

