UK jobs. Bigger possibilities.

Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

On-site in London·Full-time·Added over a year ago (last checked 9 Oct)

OpenAI

34 open roles

Overview

Job details

  • Full-time

    Per the ad.

Requirements

  • Work on-site in London

    No relocation package mentioned.

  • Have 5+ years of experience

    Mid-level role.

Skills

The role

The cloud infrastructure team builds and maintains infrastructure abstractions allowing OpenAI to ship products quickly and scalably.

What you'll do

  • Design and build the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale

  • Ensure our infrastructure can scale to the next order of magnitude

  • Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think

  • Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed.

You might thrive in this role if you

  • Have 5+ years building core infrastructure

  • Have experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale

  • Have experience building abstractions over cloud platforms

  • Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems

  • Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change

Hiring process

3 steps2 interviewsa task to do
  1. Application and résumé review · 1 week

  2. Introductory calls

    With a hiring manager or recruiter

    A conversation with the hiring manager or recruiter about your experience, motivations and goals.

  3. Skills-based assessment

    Pair coding, a take-home project or a technical test depending on the team; sometimes more than one.

  4. Final interviews

    With 4–6 interviewers · Video call · 4–6 hours

    4–6 hours of interviews with 4–6 people over one or two days, focused on your area of expertise.

  5. Decision

  • Updates within about a week after each stage; decision within a week of the final interviews.
  • Final interviews are virtual by default; onsite in San Francisco is optional.
  • Whether AI tools are allowed varies by interview and is stated in the prep materials.

About OpenAI

Industry
AI
Founded
2015
Employees
1,000–5,000
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA
Website
openai.com

In their own words

About the company & team

The Applications Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI's technology to consumers and businesses.

You'll join the team responsible for running the core infrastructure that supports products like ChatGPT and the API. The systems we support include our kubernetes clusters, infrastructure deployment, our networking stack, cloud abstractions, and more.

We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.

Additional information

OpenAI 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 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.

For additional information, please see OpenAI's Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

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, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

All open roles at OpenAI
Hybrid in London
Hybrid in London
US$255k – US$445k a yearHybrid in London

Applied AI Engineer

OpenAI4w ago
Hybrid in London
US$230k – US$405k a yearHybrid in London
See all 34 jobs