Software Engineer, Codex Core Agents
Core
Design and operate the infrastructure that powers AI agents in production, focusing on sandboxed execution, orchestration, and stateful workflows.
Role type
Senior IC distributed systems engineer (AI infrastructure)
Builds
Execution environments, orchestration systems, and shared platform capabilities for AI agents
Domain
AI infrastructure, distributed systems, developer tooling
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems, containerization/sandboxing, backend systems, API design, system reliability, performance optimization, security engineering
Preferred skills
code execution platforms, CI/CD systems, LLMs/agents, tool-use frameworks, security engineering, developer platforms
Technologies
containers, sandboxing, virtualization, APIs, distributed systems
Responsibilities
Design execution environments for AI agents with sandboxing and isolation; Develop systems for agent orchestration across multi-step workflows; Build infrastructure for running and debugging model-generated code; Create state and memory systems for long-running tasks; Optimize tokens, latency, reliability, and cost; Support model rollouts and capacity planning; Build shared platform capabilities for product and partner teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC