infrastructure
Posted May 30, 2025Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- - Collaborate with research teams to stand up and optimize systems for novel AI training runs and experimental applications.
Requirements
- About the Team The Agent Infrastructure team at OpenAI is responsible for building systems that enable training and deployment of highly useful AI agents, both internally and for the world.
- We work hand-in-hand with researchers to design and scale the environment in which agentic models are trained – providing a workspace for AI models to execute code, debug issues, and develop software just as human SWEs do.
- At the same time, our team builds and maintains OpenAI’s core platform for the deployment and execution of agents in production.
- About the Role As a Software Engineer on the Agent Infrastructure team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with both research and product at OpenAI - building and scaling systems to train highly capable agentic models, and building the platform and integrations to launch new agents to hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
- experience building AI infrastructure and who are used to working closely with researchers to build high-performance systems at massive scale for novel use cases.
- You will be a core contributor to a novel container orchestration platform built in-house by our team to scale far beyond what’s possible with systems like Kubernetes.
- experience working on large-scale machine learning infrastructure.
- You know how to squeeze the most performance out of complex, globally-distributed systems. - Know your way around cloud platforms and work with infrastructure-as-code tech like Terraform. - Are driven by solving complex, ambiguous problems at the intersection of infrastructure scalability, virtualization efficiency, and agentic capabilities. - Have deep technical expertise in virtualization and containerization technologies (e.g.
- Kata, Firecracker, gVisor, Sysbox) and are passionate about optimizing runtime performance.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- Our training environment for agentic models operates at an extremely high scale and has the flexibility to emulate any environment in which an agent might work.
- Our systems power products such as Codex, Operator, tool use in ChatGPT, and future agentic products.
- Some of the most challenging technical problems in scaling the capabilities and utility of agents and agentic models lie in the infrastructure layer – and our team is focused on building the research and production systems that enable OpenAI to train the most capable models in the world, and maximize the utility of our agentic products for users around the world.
- Your work will consist of both building new capabilities - standing up the infrastructure and integrations needed to train more complex agentic models - and rapidly scaling these new capabilities to some of the largest compute clusters in the world.
- At the same time, you’ll be instrumental to the launch of agentic products at OpenAI - building, maintaining, and scaling the production platform on which all agents run.
- This role is based in San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY.
- We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role,
- you will: - Push massive compute clusters to their limits.
- - Develop and maintain FastAPI and gRPC APIs that serve as the interface for our agentic infrastructure used both in training and production.
- - Use Terraform to stand up and evolve complex infrastructure for both research and production.