openai
Software Engineer, Productivity - Model Performance
San Franciscofulltimemid
About this role
Join OpenAI's Model Performance team as a Software Engineer focused on developer productivity. You'll design and improve CI/CD pipelines, testing workflows, and infrastructure tooling to help engineers work faster and more reliably on large-scale model training and inference systems.
What you'll do
- Improve development workflows and reduce friction in testing, debugging, and deployment processes
- Design and maintain CI/CD, release, validation, and testing pipelines
- Build developer tools that enhance reliability, iteration speed, and engineering confidence
- Partner with engineers to identify and address workflow bottlenecks
- Contribute to performance-critical infrastructure supporting training and inference systems
- Enhance developer experience for Python-heavy codebases and performance-oriented infrastructure
What they're looking for
- CI/CD systems and pipelines
- Developer infrastructure and tooling
- Python programming
- Test automation and infrastructure
- Build and release workflows
- PyTorch ecosystem (highly relevant)
- C++ or Rust (nice-to-have)
- Large-scale system design
Opens the official application on the employer’s site. No login required.