Systems Generalist, GPT Infrastructure is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $293K - $445K. Posted on Jul 17, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We are seeking an experienced systems generalist who can work comfortably across the stack to help build an automated inference optimization platform. Given a workload, target hardware profile, compiler and runtime context, and a trusted verifier, the system runs durable optimization campaigns that generate, compile, execute, grade, and improve candidate kernels, runtime configurations, and serving-stack changes…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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