Software Engineer, System Enablement
Core
Engineer responsible for bootstrapping, stabilizing, and integrating early hardware into OpenAI's fleet infrastructure to enable AI model deployment.
Role type
Senior IC systems engineer (hardware bring-up & fleet provisioning)
Builds
Production-ready compute nodes and fleet capacity for AI model training/inference
Domain
AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, cloud systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Linux systems administration, Kubernetes node lifecycle management, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Chef), Python/Go/Bash automation, Networking (L2/L3, routing, DNS), PXE/iPXE bootstrapping, BMC/UEFI debugging
Preferred skills
Early silicon/server bring-up experience, Multi-cloud operations (Azure/GCP/AWS/OCI), Telemetry/health pipeline development, WAN/peering concepts
Technologies
Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef, Ansible, PXE, iPXE, cloud-init, Python, Go, Bash, UEFI, BMC
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end bring-up of new systems from bare metal to schedulable fleet capacity; Build and maintain golden images and provisioning workflows; Integrate nodes into fleet infrastructure and IaC pipelines; Partner with scheduling teams to ensure hardware reachability and admission; Drive registration and inventory correctness; Implement baseline health and telemetry bring-up; Debug issues across boot-loader, OS, network, and storage layers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
