Software Engineer, Cloud Computer

Codex - Engineering - San Francisco

About the team

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The Browser Use team builds the technology that enables agents to interact with browsers across our products. Our work spans infrastructure, tooling, and user experiences, both on users’ devices and in the cloud. We partner with research to improve our models’ browser-use capabilities and with web standards bodies to shape how agents interact with the web.

Our products include ChatGPT for Chrome, the ChatGPT in-app browser, and the cloud computer used in dots and ChatGPT Work.

We see the browser as a universal connector. If we can enable our models to use it effectively, they can do anything. Come help us build the future of browsing!

About the role

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We’re looking for a product-oriented engineer to build and scale our cloud computer infrastructure. Our goal is to give every one of our users access to an agent with their own computer in the cloud. Build novel solutions to problems like authentication, user takeover, and enterprise network access.

You’ll help own the systems that provision, run, and manage the environments our agents use, making them reliable, responsive, and efficient as demand grows.

This role combines infrastructure depth with close attention to the user experience. You’ll partner with research and engineering teams to bring new computer-use capabilities into production, working across container orchestration, backend services, and product experiences.

In this role you will

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• Build and scale infrastructure for running agent-controlled browsers and computers in the cloud.
• Develop services for provisioning environments, managing sessions, and coordinating their lifecycle.
• Improve reliabilityance, resource utilization, and observability across the fleet.
• Diagnose issues across Linux, containers, networking, and browser execution.
• Build APIs and tooling that make cloud computers easy for research and product teams to use.
• Work closely with research to understand emerging requirements and improve how computer use works.
• Develop authentication, credential management, and network access controls that protect user data and support interactions with websites and services.

Your background might look something like

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• Experience leading large-scale backend, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, and product boundaries.
• Strong understanding of distributed systemss, and production reliability.
• Own systems from initial design through deployment and scale.
• Comfort with a fast-moving pace while caring for security and operational excellence.

Experience with browser automation, remote computing environments, or infrastructure for AI agents would be especially relevant.

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 the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.

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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

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.

Compensation

$255K – $445K + Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-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.