Infrastructure Engineer
About the Team
Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI’s ideas safely to the world!!
The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.
About the Role
We’re seeking an Infrastructure Engineer with experience in building and operating infrastructure at scale. You’ll join a nimble team where you’ll help drive deployment of OpenAI’s technology into new environments and infrastructure to enable the critical missions in the public sector. This role engages cross-functionally with internal product, security, and compliance teams to build required functionality and ensure we’re delivering a scalable, reliable platform that can run wherever our customers need our technology most.
This role is based in Washington D.C. and San Francisco, CA. Occasional travel to customer sites is required for this role.
In this role, you will:
Design and build performant, reliable, and scalable infrastructure, both on-premises and in cloud, for our public sector customers.
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
Work with our on-site teams and customers to ensure the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed.
Partner with teams across the business, including engineering, security, and compliance, to enable our infrastructure to operate within the unique constraints of new environments.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Hold an active US security clearance
Have 8+ years of experience in engineering, including 4+ years of experience in infrastructure
Built, operated, and maintained infrastructure in environments with unique and challenging constraints.
Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
Debug issues across the stack, inclusive of networking and performance
Thrive in dynamic environments and can navigate ambiguity with ease.
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
Some of the technologies you’ll be working with include Kubernetes, Python, FastAPI, Cosmos DB, Postgres, and Terraform.
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
OpenAI Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement
For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
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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.
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Join OpenAI as an Infrastructure Engineer in Washington D.C. and be a part of a dynamic team that shapes the future of technology! This role is all about leveraging your expertise in building and operating infrastructure at scale to safely deploy cutting-edge AI technologies. At OpenAI, we prioritize responsibility over rapid growth; safety is at the heart of what we do. In this role, you will work closely with diverse teams, including research, engineering, and product departments, to create reliable infrastructure for our public sector clients. You’ll design and implement scalable solutions both on-premises and in the cloud, ensuring that our systems are not only functional but thriving. More than just a technical position, you'll empower your colleagues with the tools they need, guide product teams in best practices, and ensure our systems are resilient. Your responsibilities will involve responding to critical incidents, collaborating cross-functionally, and adapting to unique operational constraints. If you have a passion for robust infrastructure, thrive in fast-paced environments, and hold a strong desire to learn, we want to hear from you. We provide the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Python, and Terraform, all while making significant contributions that benefit humanity.
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OpenAI
OpenAI is a US based, private research laboratory that aims to develop and direct AI. It is one of the leading Artifical Intellgence organizations and has developed several large AI language models including ChatGPT.
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