Software Engineer, Product Infrastructure - Agent Runtime is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $266K - $445K. Posted on Aug 17, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re looking for a software engineer with strong product infrastructure experience to build the services, APIs, and runtime capabilities behind persistent agents. You’ll focus on the product infrastructure that makes agent workflows reliable and scalable, including persistent state, asynchronous execution, orchestration, and visibility into work in progress. You’ll bring product judgment to infrastructure…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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