Infrastructure Software Engineer, OpenAI

$300-450k

Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits

Kubernetes

Python

Postgres

Terraform

Cosmos DB

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

AI research and development platform

Job no longer available

AI research and development platform

1001+ employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseSaaSAPIDevOps

Job no longer available

$300-450k

Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits

Kubernetes

Python

Postgres

Terraform

Cosmos DB

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseSaaSAPIDevOps

Company mission

To ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Have 8+ years of experience in engineering, including 4+ years of experience in infrastructure
Care deeply about helping to build a diverse, equitable, inclusive culture
Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills—and an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others

What the job involves

The Applied Infrastructure team designs, builds, and operates the foundational infrastructure that powers ChatGPT and the API
Design and build the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale
Accelerate engineering productivity by empowering your fellow engineers with excellent tooling and systems
Bring new features and research capabilities to the world by partnering with product engineers to lay the necessary technical foundations
Guide and advise product engineering teams on best practices for ensuring observable, scalable systems
Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think
Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

Our take

OpenAI aims to research and deploy AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) that is safe, controllable and beneficial to all of humanity. The company began its mission by developing an API that can solve language-based tasks, such as answering written questions or pulling up relevant documents based on a query.

Following the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, which gained more than 1 million users in its first 5 days and is already worth billions, OpenAI announced a paid version named ChatGPT Plus which will be launched in the US first.

It is worth noting that OpenAI is not without controversy. Its products have sparked conversations regarding the morals and implications of AI tools, and recent investigations have uncovered misalignments between the company's public commitments and its alleged operations behind closed doors.

Whilst AI applications can be found in a vast variety of tech startups, this generally consists of the automation of algorithmic tasks such as data analysis and organization. OpenAI’s approach to designing true human-like artificial intelligence is futuristic, but with support from its high-profile partners (such as Microsoft), an annualised revenue reported at $ 2 billion in 2023, and the clear success of its products have the company well set to continue bringing advanced AI to the public.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

42% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.2)

Trustpilot (1.3)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)

Feb 2026

$110bn

LATE VC

Dec 2025

$1bn

LATE VC

Total funding: $179.9bn

Company benefits

Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care
Mental healthcare service
Fertility treatment coverage
401(k) with generous matching
20-week paid parental leave
Life insurance (complimentary)
AD&D insurance (complimentary)
Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)
Optional buy-up life insurance
Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)
Annual learning & development stipend
Regular team happy hours and outings
Daily catered lunch and dinner
Travel to domestic conferences

Company HQ

Mission District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Sam Altman

(CEO)

Former Y Combinator President & Chairman.

Ilya Sutskever

(Chief Scientist)

Initially served as the company's Research Director, then became Chief Scientist in 2018. Co-founded DNNResearch and previously worked at Google as a Research Scientist.

Greg Brockman

(President & Chairman)

Previously served as CTO of the company. Founding Engineer and former CTO of Stripe.

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