About the job
About Our Team
Join the Applications Engineering team, a dynamic group that collaborates across research, engineering, product management, and design to deliver cutting-edge AI solutions for consumers and businesses alike.
As a member of our team, you will play a vital role in managing the essential infrastructure that underpins products like ChatGPT and our API. This encompasses our Kubernetes clusters, infrastructure deployment, networking architecture, cloud abstractions, and much more.
We are committed to learning from our deployments and spreading the advantages of AI while ensuring its responsible and safe application. For us, safety takes precedence over unrestricted growth.
Role Overview
Our cloud infrastructure team is dedicated to constructing and sustaining infrastructure abstractions that empower OpenAI to deliver products efficiently and at scale.
Key Responsibilities:
Design and develop robust development and production platforms that ensure reliability and security at scale.
Guarantee that our infrastructure is poised to scale for future demands.
Foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment that encourages openness, welcome, and the challenging of conventional thinking.
Participate in the overall responsibility for system reliability, including an on-call rotation for critical incidents.
Ideal Candidate Profile:
5+ years of experience in building core infrastructure systems.
Skilled in operating orchestration systems, particularly Kubernetes, on a large scale.
Experience in creating abstractions over various cloud platforms.
Pride in developing and managing scalable, reliable, and secure systems.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting to rapid changes.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is a pioneering AI research and deployment organization committed to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence serves the greater good of humanity. We continuously push the boundaries of AI capabilities and are focused on the safe deployment of these technologies through our innovative products. Our mission is to prioritize safety and human needs while embracing diverse perspectives, ensuring that our AI tools are developed responsibly.

