Software Engineer, Research Developer Productivity

About the Position

Software Engineer, Research Developer Productivity

San Francisco

About the Team

The Fleet team builds core components to enable productive research from small to state-of-the-art scale across OpenAI, with the goal of accelerating progress towards AGI. We frequently collaborate with other teams to speed up the development of new state-of-the-art capabilities.

About the Role

As we scale up with more researchers and engineers joining OpenAI, we seek a pragmatic and passionate engineer with a strong focus on the development experience for both engineers and scientists.

In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining systems that allow our research + engineering organization to iteratively develop, test, and deploy new features reliably, with high velocity, and with a frictionless and fast development cycle.

You will help oversee and drive the vision of how we should build, test, and deploy software. You will drive the design of our continuous integration pipelines, testing infrastructure, training, and support around our build system. Our current environment relies heavily on Python, Rust, and C++, which you will take ownership of and strive to transform into a state-of-the-art development experience for research.

Ultimately, your role will be to provide the necessary tools and metrics to support our fast-paced culture and ensure a stable, scalable platform for growth, while also fostering a seamless and low friction experience for OpenAI’s research.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. For a San Francisco role, we use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain systems for iterative development, testing, and deployment of new features
• Oversee and drive the vision for building, testing, and deploying software
• Design continuous integration pipelines, testing infrastructure, and support around the build system
• Transform the current development environment into a state-of-the-art experience for research

Requirements

• Proficient Python programmer working in large monorepos
• Proficient with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experienced in CI/CD

About the Company

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, 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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