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Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

New York, NY · Hybrid

$189.30K - $224.30K/yr

About the Team The Agent Infrastructure team at OpenAI is responsible for building systems that ... About the Role As a Software Engineer on the Agent Infrastructure team, you will have the ...

Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

Manhattan, NY · Hybrid

$190.70K - $226K/yr

About the Team The Agent Infrastructure team at OpenAI is responsible for building systems that ... About the Role As a Software Engineer on the Agent Infrastructure team, you will have the ...

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What does an Infrastructure Software Engineer do?

An Infrastructure Software Engineer designs, builds, and maintains the foundational software systems that support applications, networking, and cloud environments. They focus on scalability, reliability, and performance by developing automation tools, managing CI/CD pipelines, and optimizing infrastructure. Their work ensures systems run efficiently, securely, and with minimal downtime.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in the Infrastructure Software Engineer position, and why are they important?

To thrive as an Infrastructure Software Engineer, you need a deep understanding of computer systems, networking, cloud infrastructure, and proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, or Java. Experience with infrastructure automation tools (like Terraform, Ansible, or Kubernetes), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and possibly certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect are highly valuable. Effective collaboration, problem-solving abilities, and strong communication skills help you excel in cross-functional teams and fast-paced environments. These skills are critical to building scalable, reliable systems and ensuring seamless deployment and maintenance of company infrastructure.

What are the typical day-to-day responsibilities of an Infrastructure Software Engineer?

As an Infrastructure Software Engineer, your typical day involves designing, implementing, and maintaining automation workflows for infrastructure deployment, monitoring system performance, and responding to incidents or outages. You'll work closely with development, DevOps, and IT teams to ensure infrastructure scalability, reliability, and security. Regular tasks may include writing scripts, managing cloud resources, evaluating new tools, and participating in on-call rotations. Collaboration and proactive problem-solving are central to meeting both technical and business needs efficiently. This role offers a dynamic blend of hands-on technical work and teamwork in evolving environments.
What other companies are hiring for Infrastructure Software Engineer jobs?
Infographic showing various Infrastructure Software Engineer job openings at Openai in the United States as of May 2026, with employment types broken down into 100% Full Time. Highlights an 68% Physical, 25% Hybrid, and 7% Remote job distribution.
Tokens-as-a-Service (Taas) Software Engineer

Tokens-as-a-Service (Taas) Software Engineer

OpenAI

San Francisco, CA • On-site

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Job description

About the Role

We are seeking a Tokens-as-a-Service (TaaS) Engineer to help build the systems that convert large-scale infrastructure capacity into measurable, reliable token throughput for OpenAI workloads.

In this role, you will work across performance benchmarking, tokenomics, model porting, infrastructure integration, systems tooling, and operational monitoring. You will help connect partner and first-party compute environments into OpenAI's infrastructure stack, ensuring GPU capacity can be onboarded, measured, monitored, and optimized against real workload outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop systems and tooling to measure, monitor, and improve token throughput across first-party and partner-owned compute environments.

  • Support performance benchmarking, tokenomics analysis, and model porting across heterogeneous infrastructure environments.

  • Build tooling to integrate external or partner infrastructure into OpenAI's internal compute, observability, and workload management systems.

  • Develop and monitor operational metrics including billing, usage, SLAs, utilization, reliability, and throughput.

  • Identify bottlenecks across hardware, networking, software, and workload enablement that prevent capacity from becoming productive tokens.

  • Partner with compute, infrastructure, networking, finance, and operations teams to translate raw capacity into usable workload-serving capacity.

  • Build dashboards, automation, and reporting systems that provide clear visibility into TaaS capacity, performance, and business outcomes.

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering background with experience building systems, tooling, automation, or infrastructure platforms.

  • Experience working across compute infrastructure, distributed systems, performance engineering, or production operations.

  • Ability to reason about token throughput, utilization, benchmarking, infrastructure efficiency, and workload performance.

  • Comfortable integrating external systems or partner environments into internal infrastructure stacks.

  • Strong analytical and debugging skills across hardware, networking, software, and operational domains.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with GPU clusters, AI infrastructure, performance benchmarking, or workload optimization.

  • Familiarity with model porting, inference/training workloads, token economics, or compute efficiency analysis.

  • Experience building monitoring systems for billing, usage, SLAs, utilization, or infrastructure reliability.

  • Background in systems engineering, infrastructure software, observability, distributed systems, or platform engineering.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI's Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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Compensation Range: $293K - $455K