Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform
OpenAIApplied AIPosted 16 January 2026
Job Description
About the TeamThe Platform Team at OpenAI owns the foundational data and processing stack powering the OpenAI API and products built on top of it. We innovate on the infrastructure needed to serve the latest models and agentic workflows at an unprecedented pace of growth and scale with high performance and reliability. Join us to build and operate the core platform that underpins OpenAI’s products and allows our customers to deploy AI themselves.About the RoleThis role is centered on designing and deploying services and infrastructure that empower our models and agents to generate insights and execute tasks, all grounded in authorized data sources and internal systems. You’ll help define the most effective data access patterns to unlock higher model accuracy and task performance. You will own the full lifecycle of your work—from architecture and implementation to production operations and on-call responsibilities.Success in this role requires a solid understanding of enterprise data management fundamentals, including security, identity and access, performance, and reliability.In this role, you will:Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and networking systems that connect structured and unstructured data to LLMs in a performant and reliable manner.Design, build, and maintain secure and compliant systems to process sensitive and valuable data.Ensure our platform can support use cases at the scale of large enterprise customers, while remaining reliable and efficient.Integrate data access and authentication with our production model and agent systems.Collaborate with product, research and forward-deployed engineering teams to fill in the full picture on how to deploy production systems and achieve world-class results on overall task capabilities.Own the reliability of the systems you build, including participation in an on-call rotation for critical incidentsYou might thrive in this role if you:Have expertise in deploying, configuring, and operating software systems within customer-managed infrastructure and networks.Are excited to bring the power of AGI to the infrastructure the world runs on todayAre comfortable with ambiguity and rapid changeHave an intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills, and an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with othersAbout OpenAIOpenAI 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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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