About the role
The Cloud Agents team builds product infrastructure for long-running agents. The role involves designing and scaling orchestration, sandboxing, and storage systems for agentic workloads across ChatGPT, API, and Codex. You will partner with product engineers to build a platform enabling quick shipping and robust abstractions, and improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
Requirements
9+ years of professional engineering experience in relevant roles. Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects. Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript or similar. Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability. Enjoy building platforms for engineers and working closely with users.
About the company
OpenAI
OpenAI is a leading artificial intelligence research and deployment company. They develop advanced AI models like GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT, aiming to create safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence for the world. Their products and research drive innovation across various industries, from security to scientific discovery.
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