Infrastructure Engineer, Data Acquisition
 OpenAI | |
$275K - $385K
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medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, parental leave, paid holidays
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 United States, California, San Francisco | |
 Jan 30, 2025 | |
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About the DAQ Team The Data Acquisition (DAQ) organization is responsible for building and operating the data pipelines, crawling, storage systems, and post-processing platforms that fuel OpenAI's research and product development. Our Infrastructure team's mission is to enable DAQ developers to move fast with minimal friction, providing "just enough" reliability, observability, and tooling in a highly dynamic environment. We value broad impact and rapid iteration over polished perfection. As our data needs grow by orders of magnitude, this small but scrappy team ensures that our foundational services can keep pace. We operate across a wide range of infrastructure concerns, including:
Rather than enforcing rigid SLAs or designing monolithic infrastructure, we focus on empowering DAQ teams to build, deploy, and run their own services. Our environment can be fluid and ad hoc- if something solves the problem quickly and reliably enough, that is usually the correct approach. About the Role We're looking for a hands-on Infrastructure Engineer with a strong bias toward action. You'll be part of a small group of generalists responsible for everything from ad-hoc shell scripts to cluster provisioning automation. You will both design and implement systems: we do create architecture, but it's rarely in the form of a lengthy design doc that goes stale-rather, we value prototyping, iterating, and shipping quickly. In this role, you will:
You might thrive in this role if you are a broad generalist who enjoys a scrappy, resultsoriented culture, can dive into anything from container orchestration to networking, and loves to unblock fellow engineers by building reliable infrastructure that supports massive growth. You're comfortable with cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, and are eager to work in a dynamic and fastmoving team environment. Qualifications
We are a small team tackling big scaling challenges with lean resources-this role is pivotal to enabling the next wave of DAQ's growth. If you're excited by a high-impact, hands-on position where you'll have broad autonomy and creative freedom to shape infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you! 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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. OpenAI Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Compensation Range: $275K - $385K | |