The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

Software Quality Engineer

We’re hiring a software quality engineer to own and evolve the build systems that connect our on-device and cloud platforms. You’ll design and maintain scalable, reliable, and flexible pipelines that improve product quality and make our teams more effective. You’ll work across a wide range of tech stacks, making the right tradeoffs to deliver quickly while building the strong foundations needed for long-term growth.

You’ll collaborate closely with product, platform, and hardware teams, bringing both breadth of technical knowledge and the judgment to adapt solutions to each platform’s needs.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Own and improve build systems across interconnected on-device and cloud platforms.

• Drive software quality and developer productivity at scale.

• Build flexible, scalable foundations while adapting to specific platform requirements.

• Stand up new software systems from scratch and take them through production scale.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth, high-quality releases.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 7+ years professional software engineering experience, with a focus on build systems, infrastructure, or quality engineering.

• Proven track record driving software quality and developer productivity in complex environments.

• Comfortable working across diverse tech stacks and platforms.

• Experience taking systems from early-stage development through production scale.

• Strong judgment in balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with both on-device and cloud build pipelines.

• Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment systems at scale.

• Background in performance optimization, automated testing, and release engineering.

About OpenAI

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.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. 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.

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Compensation Range: $380K - $460K