Software Engineer, Cloud Computer
OpenAI is hiring a Software Engineer, Cloud Computer for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $255k-$445k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
Build and scale cloud computer and infrastructure services that enable AI agents to interact with browsers and virtual environments.
About the team
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
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
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 reliability, performance, 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
Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems.
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.
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, 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.
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How we rate this
Software Engineer, Cloud Computer at OpenAI rates 70 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.
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- $255k
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- $168k
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Questions you could be asked
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Tell me about a research question you investigated. What did you find?
- Tell me about a project where backend was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where cloud infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where container orchestration was part of your work. What did you do?
Adapt your resume
- List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents, AI Research, Backend, Cloud Infrastructure, and Container Orchestration. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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