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Software Engineer, CI/CD & ML Infrastructure

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · San Francisco

Employer listed it 8 days ago · Added 2 weeks ago

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Salary

$318k to $485k per year

Location

Hybrid · San Francisco

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Mid

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Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, Hybrid"
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Before you apply

Experience: employer states

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“AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.”

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About the role

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, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform.

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 correctness, performance, 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 regression, performance 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.

Requirements

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Benefits

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