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Software Engineer, Compute Foundations

About the TeamCompute Foundations builds the software that manages OpenAI’s GPU compute infrastructure across sites, data centers, and infrastructure providers, supporting model training and inference. Our systems turn large, heterogeneous

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-16T23:39:23.616+00:00

OpenAI's Compute Foundations team is hiring a mid-level software engineer in San Francisco for an on-site, full-time role. The person will build distributed systems and Kubernetes-based controllers that manage GPU compute across sites and providers. Work includes lifecycle APIs, provisioning, configuration, upgrades, recovery, and control-plane performance. The posting asks for production distributed-systems experience, Kubernetes reconciliation knowledge, and familiarity with bare-metal boot, firmware, Linux, drivers, or configuration management. GPU or HPC infrastructure background is a plus.