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Software Engineer, Productivity - Model Performance

Builds and improves developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and testing workflows to boost productivity for OpenAI's model performance engineering teams. Requires strong Python skills, experience with developer infrastructure, and ability to work in ambiguous environments.

230k – 385k/yr
On-siteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Improve development workflows for engineers working on model performance infrastructure
  • Design and improve CI/CD, release, validation, and testing pipelines
  • Build and maintain tools that improve reliability, iteration speed, and engineering confidence
  • Partner closely with engineers to identify friction in testing, debugging, deployment, and development workflows
  • Contribute to infrastructure efforts that support performance-critical training and inference systems
  • Help improve developer experience across Python-heavy codebases and performance-oriented infrastructure
  • Work in a high-context, ambiguous environment where ownership and good judgment matter

Requirements

  • Motivated by enabling other engineers and helping them do their best work
  • Strong experience with CI/CD, developer infrastructure, testing systems, tooling, or build/release workflows
  • Highly collaborative, empathetic, and comfortable partnering deeply with technical teams
  • Strong in Python and enjoy building reliable, scalable developer tools and infrastructure
  • Experience improving large-scale engineering workflows, especially around CI reliability, test infrastructure, and debugging velocity
  • Self-directed and comfortable operating with ambiguity
  • Excited to learn model performance domain

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience in the PyTorch ecosystem
  • Experience with C++ or Rust

Skills

PythonCI/CDPyTorchTritonC++RustTesting FrameworksDeveloper ToolingInfrastructureCi Pipelines

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