OpenAI
Software Engineer, Cloud Computer
San Francisco · Contract
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TypeScriptPythonGoRustDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentCloud PlatformsLinuxAgentic AIResearch
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About the role
- This role combines infrastructure depth with close attention to the user experience.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Build APIs and tooling that make cloud computers easy for research and product teams to use.
- Develop authentication, credential management, and network access controls that protect user data and support interactions with websites and services.
- Own systems from initial design through deployment and scale.
Requirements
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar, and the ability to move across service, platform, and product boundaries.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability.
Skills
- Our work spans infrastructure, tooling, and user experiences, both on users' devices and in the cloud.
- Our products include ChatGPT for Chrome, the ChatGPT in-app browser, and the cloud computer used in dots and ChatGPT Work.
Company info
- The Browser Use team builds the technology that enables agents to interact with browsers across our products.
- We partner with research to improve our models' browser-use capabilities and with web standards bodies to shape how agents interact with the web.
- 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!
This listing is sourced directly from OpenAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.