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Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems)

About the TeamThis team builds and operates the systems that enable OpenAI researchers to run reliable, scalable, and efficient research workflows. The team sits close to research and works across infrastructure, systems, and automation to

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-27T20:24:02.974+00:00

A software engineering role on the team that runs systems for OpenAI researchers, working on infrastructure close to the metal: cluster bootstrapping and provisioning, networking, Kubernetes, caching, search, observability, and crawl-and-ingest data pipelines. The job mixes writing automation and software with debugging distributed systems and supporting research workloads. The posting asks for strong systems fundamentals, Linux and Kubernetes comfort, and an independent, high-ownership approach, and notes the team is moving from bespoke bare-metal toward more standard, scalable platforms.