Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $230K - $405K. Posted on Aug 14, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We are looking for engineers who want to build the compute platform behind OpenAI's research and products. You may not be the strongest in low-level systems, high-performance computing, distributed infrastructure, reliability, CaaS, agent infrastructure, developer platforms, tooling, or the user experience around infrastructure. What matters is that you can reason carefully about complex systems, write durable…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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