Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

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. 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. At the same time, our team builds and maintains OpenAI’s core platform for the deployment and execution of agents in production. 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. 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 m [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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. We’re looking for people with deep 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. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY or London, UK. 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. You will [... source excerpt omitted ...] yond what’s possible with systems like Kubernetes. 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. Collaborate with research teams to stand up and optimize systems for novel AI training runs and experimental applications. You might thrive in this role if you: Have deep experience working on large-scale machine learning infrastructure. You know how to reason about training at scale, identifying bottlenecks and engineering solutions to optimize system performance in training environments. Know h