Software Engineer, Compute Foundations at OpenAI
- Company: OpenAI
- Location: San Francisco
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $255K – $490K • Offers Equity
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Technologies: Kubernetes, OpenAI
About the role
ABOUT THE TEAM Compute Foundations builds the software that manages OpenAI’s GPU compute infrastructure across sites, data centers, and infrastructure providers, supporting model training and inference. Our systems turn large, heterogeneous fleets of machines into dependable compute for research and products. We build Kubernetes-based control planes, controllers, services, and APIs that coordinate the lifecycle of machines and clusters. We connect global infrastructure management with the realities of bare-metal systems, giving clients consistent interfaces across differences in hardware, topology, and provider behavior. ABOUT THE ROLE You will build distributed systems that provision, configure, and manage compute throughout its lifecycle.…
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