Software Engineer, Developer Productivity - Inference Runtime is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $230K - $385K. Posted on May 10, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re looking for an autonomous, high-ownership engineer who cares deeply about making other engineers faster, safer, and more confident. A major focus of this role will be improving the tooling and infrastructure around deploy gates for inference engine images. These systems help ensure that every image released to production and research is correct, numerically sound, free of regressions, and performant across key…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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