Software Engineer, DevOps

Hardware - San Francisco About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño. About the Role You will define and build the CI/CD systems that qualify frontier models and the software stack running on OpenAI’s custom AI accelerators. Your work will make correctnessance, and stability measurable on every change, from individual commits through production releases. This role spans model workloads, accelerator software, systems infrastructure, and developer productivity. You will establish scalable CI/CD, GitOps, and monorepo practices; design trustworthy regression and benchmarking pipelines; and partner with model, compiler, kernel, runtime, firmware, and hardware teams to shorten feedback loops without compromising production readiness. In this role, you will: Define the model CI strategy for frontier models running on OpenAI custom silicon and integrated accelerator systems. Build production CI/CD pipelines for functional regressionance benchmarking, software stability, and release qualification. Design representative test matrices across models, configurations, hardware generations, software components, and deployment environments. Create reliable performance baselines, regression detection, bisect and triage workflows, and clear ownership for failures. Establish GitOps practices for reproducible configuration, promotion, rollback, auditability, and environment consistency. Shape monorepo architecture, dependency management, build and test boundaries, change validation, and developer workflows at scale. Develop scalable orchestration, artifact management, caching, scheduling, observability, and capacity controls for accelerator-backed CI. Partner with model, compiler, kernel, runtime, firmware, validation, and hardware teams to translate release risks into automated gates. Improve CI reliability, speed, debuggability, and cost efficiency while maintaining high confidence in production software. You might thrive in this role if: Have built or operated large-scale CI/CD, developer infrastructure, test automation, or production engineering systems. Understand modern software delivery practices, including GitOps, release promotion, rollback, reproducibility, and policy-driven automation. Have experience designing monorepos, build systems, dependency graphs, test selection, or change-impact analysis. Can design regression and performance-benchmarking systems with stable baselines, useful metrics, and actionable failure diagnosis. Are proficient in Python, Go, Rust, C++, or another language used to build reliable infrastructure and automation. Have worked with distributed systems, schedulers, containers, clusters, or heterogeneous compute infrastructure. Can collaborate with model and systems engineers to turn complex accelerator workloads into repeatable production qualification. Care deeply about reliability, observability, developer experience, and reducing time from code change to trustworthy signal. To comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements as provided in those laws and regulations. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. At OpenAI, 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. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Compensation $177K – $327K + Offers Equity The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits. Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) 401(k) retirement plan with employer match Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law) Mental health and wellness support Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible Relocation support for eligible employees Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided. More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process. This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.