Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Architecture

Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Architecture

Robotics - San Francisco

The OpenAI Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives.

As a Senior Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Infrastructure, you will be a deeply hands‑on engineering force multiplier for the robotics team. You will help keep the training framework and surrounding infrastructure healthy, review and improve code quickly, debug failures across ML systems and infrastructure, and unblock researchers and engineers when the path from idea to working training job gets rough.

We’re looking for people who love writing, reading, reviewing, and fixing code; who can get productive quickly in unfamiliar systems; and who bring strong practical judgment without a lot of ego or process overhead. This role will be based in San Francisco, CA and be expected in office 5 days per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

• Review, improve, and clean up code across training frameworks and adjacent infrastructure.
• Identify risky or low-quality changes before they land, and raise the code quality bar without slowing the team down.
• Debug issues across ML training systems, GPUs, clusters, networking, and related infrastructure.
• Help researchers and engineers unblock broken training jobs, flaky workflows, and brittle internal tooling.
• Improve the reliability, maintainability, and usability of the robotics team’s training framework.
• Move quickly on practical engineering problems that directly affect team velocity.

• Have strong software engineering fundamentals and excellent code review judgment.
• Have experience with ML systems, training frameworks, GPUs, distributed systems, infrastructure, or similarly complex technical environments.
• Read and debug unfamiliar codebases quickly, and enjoy getting to root cause.
• Ship high-quality code with strong velocity and pragmatic judgment.
• Are low-ego, responsive, and motivated by helping researchers and engineers move faster.
• Prefer being a highly effective hands‑on IC over driving broad process‑heavy initiatives.
• Have experience reviewing messy, fast‑moving, or AI-generated codebases.

Compensation: $295K – $380K USD + equity.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws.