engineering
Posted Nov 14, 2025Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems - Robotics
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- you will: - Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems such as distributed compute, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure, machine learning infrastructure while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. - Ensure our data platform can scale by orders of magnitude while remaining reliable and efficient - Partner with researchers to deeply understand
Requirements
- About the Team The OpenAI Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings.
- We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives.
- experience with distributed systems, and excel at building reliable infrastructure in high-stakes environments.
- experience with distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure with a strong interest in data. - Are detail-oriented and bring rigor to building and maintaining reliable systems. - Demonstrate excellent software engineering fundamentals and organizational skills. - Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- About the Role As a Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems, you will design and scale the infrastructure that powers large-scale multimodal training and evaluation at OpenAI.
- You’ll manage distributed data pipelines, collaborate closely with researchers to translate
- requirements into robust systems, and harden pipelines that serve as the backbone for OpenAI’s rapid iteration cycles. We’re looking for engineers who are detail-oriented, have strong
- 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 might thrive in this role if you: - Have strong