# Software Engineer, Productivity - Model Performance

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $230k – $385k/yr
**Skills:** Python, CI/CD, PyTorch, Triton, C++, Rust, Testing Frameworks, Developer Tooling, Infrastructure, Ci Pipelines
**Posted:** 2026-04-29

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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**

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