About this role
OpenAI has a vacancy for the role of Software Engineer, Developer Productivity - Inference Runtime in San Francisco. This is a full-time position. The listing was posted on May 10, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
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ABOUT THE TEAM
We’re hiring a Developer Productivity engineer to support OpenAI’s Inference Runtime teams. These teams own the systems responsible for serving models reliably, efficiently, and safely across Codex, ChatGPT, API, and internal research workloads. We’re hiring a Developer Productivity Engineer to help scale the engineering systems, safeguards, and developer workflows that enable our teams to move quickly without compromising reliability or performance.
This role sits at the intersection of developer experience, CI/CD infrastructure, release engineering, production readiness, and inference systems reliability. You’ll work on the tooling and operational foundations that support model launches, inference optimizations, cloud provider integrations, and large-scale deployments across a rapidly evolving inference stack.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re looking for an autonomous, high-ownership engineer who cares deeply about making other engineers faster, safer, and more confident.
A major focus of this role will be improving the tooling and infrastructure around deploy gates for inference engine images.