The Software Acceleration team at OpenAI is looking to build tools, systems, and processes to super-charge engineering velocity across consumer hardware and software stack, removing friction, reducing toil, and improving code health.
Requirements
- Have deep experience designing and building scalable software systems.
- Are proficient in Python, C, C++, or Rust, with solid Linux fundamentals (build systems, networking, process management).
- (Nice to have) Are familiar with Git, Bazel, Terraform, Buildkite, Postgres, Cosmos DB, FastAPI, or similar tooling.
- (Nice to have) Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn new skills and share knowledge clearly and concisely.
- (Nice to have) Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions, seeing change as an opportunity to add structure and order when needed.
- (Nice to have) Have experience maintaining a quality bar and engineering velocity for products shipped at large scale.
- (Nice to have) Have built and developed engineering systems at an early stage from zero to one.
Responsibilities
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- Engineering acceleration & tooling: Design, develop, and maintain systems that speed up development workflows, reduce manual effort, and raise product quality across embedded, application, and cloud layers.
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- Cross-team enablement: Work directly with hardware and software teams to map pain points, capture requirements, and build tools that solve real-world bottlenecks.
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- Existing ecosystem integration: Collaborate with the broader Engineering Acceleration team to adopt and evolve their internal systems for the unique needs of consumer hardware and software.
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- Code organization & health: Drive consistent code structure, dependency management, and hygiene across heterogeneous stacks and third-party vendor integrations.
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- Build & infrastructure systems: Architect and scale performant build systems from on-device embedded software to cloud infrastructure, ensuring reproducibility and rapid iteration.
Other
- We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
- Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
- This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 4 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
- We believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared.
