Software Engineer, Compute Foundations is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $255K - $490K. Posted on Sep 16, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
You will build distributed systems that provision, configure, and manage compute throughout its lifecycle. Your work will connect global services and Kubernetes controllers with the systems that bring machines online, update them safely, and recover them when something goes wrong. This role combines software architecture with an understanding of how machines and data centers work. You might design a lifecycle API…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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