Software Engineer (Python)

Location: San Francisco, CA; hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week.

Salary: $266K–$405K base pay annually, plus equity and performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company developing and safely deploying general-purpose artificial intelligence.

What you will do

• Build and maintain automated pipelines transferring model weights, configurations, code, and container images between OpenAI and partner environments.
• Implement validation and business logic governing how artifacts are prepared and shared.
• Improve production reliability through testing, monitoring, diagnostics, and robust failure handling.
• Integrate services with source control, object storage, and build and container tooling.
• Collaborate with research, security, developer infrastructure, partner engineering, and external engineering teams.
• Improve existing workflows and use AI tools where they make systems more effective.

Requirements

• Strong Python skills and experience building, testing, and debugging backend software.
• Experience taking a service, pipeline, or automation project from implementation into production and helping keep it reliable.
• Ability to investigate how systems fit together and trace problems across services and dependencies.
• Ability to turn ambiguous requirements into practical software while exercising sound judgment around sensitive information.
• Clear communication with technical and nontechnical collaborators and partner engineering teams.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly and take responsibility for following problems through to resolution.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud services, object storage, containers, or CI/CD.
• Experience with tools such as Docker, Bazel, and Buildkite; prior expertise in every tool or a particular cloud provider is not required.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, collaborative team with direct ownership of systems supporting strategic partnerships.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; HSA and FSA options; 401(k) with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, caregiver, sick, and safe leave; flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
• 13+ paid company holidays, paid office closures, mental health support, and employer-paid life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend, daily office meals, eligible meal delivery credits, and relocation support for eligible employees.
• Employment is at-will; background checks and applicable employment laws apply.