Software Engineer, Core Network Engineering is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $230K - $342K. Posted on May 6, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re looking for engineers to help build and operate the networking foundation behind OpenAI’s frontier AI systems. Depending on your background and area of focus, you may work across host networking, datacenter fabrics, or global WAN infrastructure. The problems span low-level systems software, distributed infrastructure, protocol readiness, observability, performance engineering, automation, and large-scale…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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