Software Engineer, Workload Enablement is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $293K - $385K. Posted on Mar 28, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re hiring an SW Engineer to enable production workloads and end-to-end testing on new platforms. This role will include creating new test harnesses and platform stress benchmarks, porting existing inference and training workloads to new, sometimes early-access, systems/hardware, analyzing performance and bottlenecks, and characterizing the end-to-end behavior of new systems (compute, comms, storage, control…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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