Software Engineer, Build Systems / CI at OpenAI
- Company: OpenAI
- Location: San Francisco
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $185K – $490K • Offers Equity
- Posted: 2026-05-25
- Technologies: OpenAI
About the role
About the Role The Engineering Acceleration team builds and operates the foundational systems that engineers use to build, test, and ship ChatGPT, the API, and OpenAI's infrastructure. We are looking for an engineer to help evolve OpenAI's build and continuous integration systems for a fast-growing engineering organization. This role sits at the intersection of developer productivity, build systems, distributed infrastructure, and software quality. You will work on the systems that determine how quickly and confidently engineers can move: Bazel-based builds, Buildkite pipelines, test selection, remote caching and execution, CI observability, and tooling that helps engineers understand and fix failures quickly. Our mission is to make OpenAI one of the most productive engineering organizations in the world while preserving a high bar for correctness, reliability, and safety.…
Apply on OpenAI's official careers page: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/202eb061-23d7-4a58-80c8-bc3b41e56d39