We're hiring software engineers to make OpenAI's Model Performance teams more productive. This role will sit within OpenAI's Model Performance organization, contributing to developer infrastructure, CI systems, testing workflows, tooling, and broader performance infrastructure efforts.
In this role you will:
- Improve development workflows for engineers working on model performance infrastructure
- Design and improve CI/CD, release, validation, and testing pipelines
- Build and maintain tools that improve reliability, iteration speed, and engineering confidence
- Partner closely with engineers to identify friction in testing, debugging, deployment, and development workflows
- Contribute to infrastructure efforts that support performance-critical training and inference systems
- Help improve developer experience across Python-heavy codebases and performance-oriented infrastructure
You might thrive in this role if:
- You are motivated by enabling the people around you and helping engineers do their best work
- You have strong experience with CI/CD, developer infrastructure, testing systems, tooling, or build/release workflows
- You are highly collaborative, empathetic, and comfortable partnering deeply with technical teams
- You are strong in Python and enjoy building reliable, scalable developer tools and infrastructure
- You have experience improving large-scale engineering workflows, especially around CI reliability, test infrastructure, and debugging velocity
- You are self-directed and comfortable operating with ambiguity
- You do not need direct inference or model performance experience, but you are excited to learn the domain and make the team meaningfully more effective
- Experience in the PyTorch ecosystem is highly relevant
- Experience with C++ or Rust is a nice-to-have, but not required
- When you see repeated friction , slow tests, flaky CI, brittle release processes, painful debugging, unclear validation , your instinct is to fix the underlying system
- You are pragmatic and know how to balance high standards with forward progress
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