OpenAI · 6 hours ago
Hardware Development Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$260K/yr - $335K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Hardware Development Infrastructure Engineer to build and run the infrastructure that powers OpenAI’s hardware development lifecycle, working closely with hardware teams to create scalable and automated systems.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Partner with hardware teams on workflows and tooling: Embed with teams across DV, PD, emulation, formal, and software to understand development flows, identify failure modes, and deliver tooling (CLIs, services, APIs) that reduces manual work and accelerates iteration
Build and operate regression systems at scale: Own regressions end-to-end—from definition and scheduling to execution, results ingestion, triage, and reporting—while improving throughput, reproducibility, and flake reduction
Own CI/CD for infrastructure and tooling: Design and operate pipelines for infrastructure-as-code, services, images, and cluster configuration changes, including testing, gated deploys, staged rollouts, and safe rollback
Run cloud and HPC platforms: Design, provision, and operate cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred) and HPC/HTC clusters (e.g., Slurm), tuning scheduling policies, autoscaling, node lifecycles, and cost-performance tradeoffs
Build data foundations and visibility: Develop ETL pipelines to ingest metrics, logs, and results; operate databases for workflow metadata and outcomes; and build dashboards that surface efficiency, utilization, and reliability trends
Drive operational excellence: Establish monitoring and alerting, lead incident response and postmortems, maintain runbooks, and produce clear, durable documentation
Qualification
Required
Familiarity with chip development workflows and at least one deep EDA domain (e.g., DV, PD, emulation, or formal verification). Strong infrastructure fundamentals, including cloud platforms, networking, security, performance, and automation
Experience operating cloud environments (Azure preferred; AWS, GCP, or OCI acceptable) with strong infrastructure-as-code practices (e.g., Terraform, Bicep; configuration management tools a plus). Strong programming skills (Python preferred) and solid software engineering and scripting practices
Experience building and operating CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions), including testing and release workflows
Database experience (e.g., Postgres or MySQL), including schema design, migrations, indexing, and operational safety
Clear communicator with strong judgment—able to explain tradeoffs, propose pragmatic solutions, and articulate a realistic vision for scalable infrastructure
Preferred
Experience operating Slurm or other large-scale cluster schedulers
Experience with enterprise authentication and directory services (e.g., Entra ID, LDAP, FreeIPA, SSSD)
Experience building or operating backend and middleware systems such as message queues, caches, artifact stores, or internal service platforms
Familiarity with high-performance storage architectures and data movement optimization
Experience running and monitoring license servers for expensive or capacity-constrained toolchains
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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