At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
About OpenAI
- OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
- We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
- For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.
- Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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About the role
- We're looking for a product-oriented engineer to build and scale our cloud computer infrastructure.
- Our goal is to give every one of our users access to an agent with their own computer in the cloud.
- This role combines infrastructure depth with close attention to the user experience.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale infrastructure for running agent-controlled browsers and computers in the cloud.
- Develop services for provisioning environments, managing sessions, and coordinating their lifecycle.
- Improve reliability, performance, resource utilization, and observability across the fleet.
- Diagnose issues across Linux, containers, networking, and browser execution.
- Build APIs and tooling that make cloud computers easy for research and product teams to use.
- Work closely with research to understand emerging requirements and improve how computer use works.
- Develop authentication, credential management, and network access controls that protect user data and support interactions with websites and services.
Requirements
- Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar, and the ability to move across service, platform, and product boundaries.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability.
- Own systems from initial design through deployment and scale.
- Comfort with a fast-moving pace while caring for security and operational excellence.
Skills
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- TypeScript
- Linux
- Containers
