Software Engineer, Productivity - Model Performance

About the TeamWe’re hiring software engineers to make OpenAI’s Model Performance teams more productive. These teams work on the systems, tooling, and infrastructure that help improve model performance across OpenAI’s training and inference workloads at frontier scale.About the RoleWe’re looking for an autonomous, high-ownership developer productivity engineer who cares deeply about helping other engineers move faster, safer, and with more confidence.This role will sit within OpenAI’s Model Performance organization, contributing to developer infrastructure, CI systems, testing workflows, tooling, and broader performance infrastructure efforts. There is also a strong opportunity to contribute to the Triton project and help improve the systems that support performance-critical engineering work across OpenAI.In this role you will:Improve development workflows for engineers working on model performance infrastructureDesign and improve CI/CD, release, validation, and testing pipelinesBuild and maintain tools that improve reliability, iteration speed, and engineering confidencePartner closely with engineers to identify friction in testing, debugging, deployment, and development workflowsContribute to infrastructure efforts that support performance-critical training and inference systemsHelp improve developer experience across Python-heavy codebases and performance-oriented infrastructureWork in a high-context, ambiguous environment where ownership and good judgment matterYou might thrive in this role if:You are motivated by enabling the people around you and helping engineers do their best workYou have strong experience with CI/CD, developer infrastructure, testing systems, tooling, or build/release workflowsYou are highly collaborative, empathetic, and comfortable partnering deeply with technical teamsYou are strong in Python and enjoy building reliable, scalable developer tools and infrastructureYou have experience improving large-scale engineering workflows, especially around CI reliability, test infrastructure, and debugging velocityYou are self-directed and comfortable operating with ambiguityYou do not need direct inference or model performance experience, but you are excited to learn the domain and make the team meaningfully more effectiveExperience in the PyTorch ecosystem is highly relevantExperience with C++ or Rust is a nice-to-have, but not requiredWhen you see repeated friction — slow tests, flaky CI, brittle release processes, painful debugging, unclear validation — your instinct is to fix the underlying systemYou are pragmatic and know how to balance high standards with forward progressAbout 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