Software Engineer, Productivity - Networking
OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States
Posted April 28, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Job Description
We're hiring software engineers to make OpenAI's networking teams more productive. The role involves improving development workflows, designing and improving continuous deployment pipelines, and building test harnesses for complex infrastructure systems.
Requirements
- Improve development workflows for engineers building and operating OpenAI's networking systems
- Design and improve continuous deployment, release, and validation pipelines
- Build and maintain test harnesses for multi-server, networked, and hardware-adjacent environments
- Improve iteration speed across C++, Python, and build-system-heavy codebases
- Partner with engineers to identify friction in CI, testing, debugging, and deployment workflows
- Drive testing and reliability strategy for infrastructure components that support large-scale training and inference workloads
- Work closely with centralized developer experience teams while staying deeply embedded with the networking engineers closest to the systems
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance