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📍 London, UK, United Kingdom· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Our Staff Software Engineers identify key strategic technical initiatives, deliver significant value to our customers and business, and set the tone for engineering excellence and culture. As an early engineering hire on the growing Privacy & Data Security team based in London, you will play a key role in bolstering our engineering presence in Europe. You'll partner with product management, product design, and your growing engineering team to drive the discovery and development of privacy features that expand Vanta’s value for its customers. Your work will accelerate product development and create a consistent customer experience for all of our customer segments. Vanta’s team and technology surface are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale with our business. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for identifying key strategic technical initiatives that impact our entire engineering team and deliver significant value to our business. You will set a high bar for engineering culture and excellence, and your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth. Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We’d love for you to join us! What you’ll d

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📍 London, Greater London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s Network Security team designs and operates the secure, reliable connectivity behind our offices, labs, campuses, cloud environments, people, and devices. We combine strong network fundamentals with automation, observability, and close partnership across IT, Security, Research, Applied, and business teams. About the Role As a Network Engineer, you will design, operate, troubleshoot, and automate secure, reliable networks across offices, labs, cloud connectivity, and production services. You will balance strategic platform work—architecture, standards, roadmaps, lifecycle planning, and automation—with responsive operations such as incidents, escalations, break/fix, and time-sensitive delivery. We’re looking for broad network engineers who meet users where they are, lead with curiosity, own outcomes end-to-end, move with urgency grounded in security, and iterate with purpose. You will turn operational signals and recurring reactive work into durable systems and standards. In this role, you will: End-to-end ownership of secure enterprise routing, switching, wireless, WAN, network services, and cloud connectivity. A deliberate balance of strategic platform improvement and responsive troubleshooting, change safety, incident response, and operational delivery. Purposeful iteration through software, APIs, Infrastructure-as-Code, Git workflows, testing, and CI/CD that reduces recurring reactive work. You might thrive in this role if you have: End-to-end ownership of secure enterprise routing, switching, wireless, WAN, network services, and cloud connectivity. A deliberate balance of strategic platform improvement and responsive troubleshooting, change safety, incident response, and operational delivery. Purposeful iteration through software, APIs, Infrastructure-as-Code, Git workflows, testing, and CI/CD that reduces recurring reactive work. Compensation, Benefits and Perks This is a position with OpenAI UK Ltd., which controls the hiring and manageme

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📍 London, Greater London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About the Team The Privacy Engineering team builds secure, reliable systems that help OpenAI meet its legal obligations while protecting user data. We partner closely with Legal and engineering teams across OpenAI to support lawful data access requests and other critical legal workflows. Our work turns complex, high-stakes processes into auditable and dependable technical systems with clear human oversight and strong privacy and security controls. About the Role We’re looking for a full-stack Software Engineer to build the internal tools and data pipelines that power lawful data access request workflows and Legal Operations. You will work across product and data systems to make authorized retrieval and case handling accurate, efficient, and auditable. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys translating ambiguous operational requirements into durable systems, cares deeply about sensitive-data handling, and wants to improve both technical reliability and the day-to-day experience of the people operating these workflows. In this role, you will: Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for the full lifecycle of lawful data access requests, from intake and scoping through authorized retrieval, review, preparation, and audit. Build reliable data pipelines and interfaces across products and data stores so authorized teams can locate and handle the right records accurately and reproducibly. Implement least-privilege access, approval gates, provenance, audit trails, data minimization, and safe failure modes for sensitive workflows. Partner with Legal and Legal Operations to translate legal and operational requirements into clear technical designs and intuitive operator experiences. Identify responsible automation opportunities that reduce repetitive work while preserving human review, judgment, and accountability. Own production systems through testing, observability, incident response, documentation, and continuous reliability improvements. Hel

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📍 London, Greater London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Threat Intelligence team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, research, and infrastructure by proactively identifying and disrupting adversaries who seek to compromise our systems or misuse our models. We investigate sophisticated threats, build tooling to scale and augment analysis, and deliver intelligence that shapes security strategy and equips leadership with timely, risk-aware insights. We combine technical depth, investigative rigor, and strong cross-functional partnerships to uncover threats and drive impact across OpenAI’s security and research organizations. About the Role As a Technical Threat Investigator at OpenAI, you will help protect the company from sophisticated adversaries targeting OpenAI and the broader ecosystem, as well as those attempting to misuse our models in support of cyber operations. This is a deeply investigative role. You will independently conduct complex, end-to-end investigations into capable threat actors to understand their behavior, infrastructure, emerging techniques, and how AI is integrated into their workflows. You’ll use these insights to proactively identify malicious activity and drive detection, disruption, enforcement, and safety improvements across the company. You’ll translate your investigative findings into durable solutions that scale impact. You’ll build and own lightweight tooling, automate where it matters, and create AI-assisted workflows to make investigations faster, more repeatable, and more effective over time. In this role, you will: Conduct deep, end-to-end investigations into sophisticated threat actors interacting with OpenAI’s models, products, and broader ecosystem. Think like an adversary — model attacker behavior, anticipate misuse patterns, and proactively hunt for, identify, and disrupt malicious activity. Leverage internal telemetry, OSINT, vendor data, a

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📍 London, London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? North is Cohere's cutting-edge AI workspace platform, designed to revolutionize the way enterprises utilize AI. It offers a secure and customizable environment, allowing companies to deploy AI while maintaining control over sensitive data. North integrates seamlessly with existing workflows, providing a trusted platform that connects AI agents with workplace tools and applications. The Agents & Automations team builds the platform inside North that lets customers create AI-powered workflows. Some of these workflows are structured automations, such as routing requests, keeping systems up-to-date, or triggering approvals. Others are more flexible agents that can gather context, use tools, make decisions, and take action across enterprise systems. As an engineer on this team, you will help build the core platform that makes this possible: the workflow builder, execution engine, integrations, debugging tools, observability, evaluation systems, and feedback loops that help customers understand and improve what they deploy. This is broad product engineering work across frontend, backend, and AI-powered systems. The

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📍 London, London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? North is Cohere's cutting-edge AI workspace platform, designed to revolutionize the way enterprises utilize AI. It offers a secure and customizable environment, allowing companies to deploy AI while maintaining control over sensitive data. North integrates seamlessly with existing workflows, providing a trusted platform that connects AI agents with workplace tools and applications. The Agents & Automations team builds the platform inside North that lets customers create AI-powered workflows. Some of these workflows are structured automations, such as routing requests, keeping systems up-to-date, or triggering approvals. Others are more flexible agents that can gather context, use tools, make decisions, and take action across enterprise systems. As an engineer on this team, you will help build the core platform that makes this possible: the workflow builder, execution engine, integrations, debugging tools, observability, evaluation systems, and feedback loops that help customers understand and improve what they deploy. This is broad product engineering work across frontend, backend, and AI-powered systems. The

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Here’s a summary of the role: Lead a strong engineering team, deliver software that matters, and help people do the best work of their careers. This is a hands-on team management role for someone who enjoys combining people leadership, technical fluency, and modern AI-enabled ways of working to build reliable products at scale. You’ll lead engineers building secure, scalable microservices and APIs using TypeScript and AWS. You’ll partner closely with Product, Security, DevOps, and peer engineering leaders to deliver roadmap outcomes, improve team effectiveness, and create an environment where engineers can grow, own their work, and build high-quality systems with confidence. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do, not all of it, just the important stuff: Lead, coach, and support a team of engineers, creating clarity around priorities, ownership, expectations, and growth goals. Partner with Product, Security, DevOps, and peer engineering leaders to plan and deliver roadmap commitments while balancing quality, pace, and sustainability. Create a healthy delivery environment by improving team processes, removing blockers, supporting planning and estimation, and reinforcing strong engineering practices. Maintain enough technical depth to guide design discussions, challenge risks, review trade-offs, and support the team in building secure and maintainable systems. Use AI tools and encourage responsible AI-assisted ways of working that improve productivity while protecting privacy, security, quality, and good judgment. Support hiring, feedback, performance conversations, and career development so the team continues to grow in capability and confidence. These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview: 8 or more years of software engineering experience, including experience leading projects and supporting or managing engineers in an agile product environment. Experience managing teams that build cloud-native microservices in AWS. Strong people leadership skills, with

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📍 London, UK, United Kingdom· Full-time· Remote
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a Solutions Engineer, you'll serve as a trusted technical voice, guiding customers toward clarity, feasibility, and alignment on the end-to-end solution. Because Vanta is the platform our customers rely on to build and run their GRC programmes, this is a natural next step for GRC professionals, programme managers, auditors, and compliance practitioners who want to apply their domain expertise in a strategic, customer-facing pre-sales role. You’ll be an integral part of the Sales team, working to ensure technical fit and create innovative solutions for our customers. Your attention to detail, focused on customer needs, will ultimately improve retention and overall success. This role will be based from our London office or Dublin office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. GRC practitioners are especially encouraged to apply—whether you've managed GRC programmes in-house, audited them as an internal or external auditor, or helped customers meet their GRC programme needs at a GRC vendor, you'll bring exactly the customer empathy and domain fluency this role thrives on. What you’ll do as a Solutions Engineer at Vanta: Serve as a strategic sales partner, owning the technical relationship with prospects and customers. Strategic Discovery and Deal Qualification: Partner with Account Executives to uncover technical, operational, and business pain points, validating use cases and aligning solutions to measurable customer impact and urgency. Secure the Solution Win and Alignment: Validate technical feasibility, drive clarity on success criteria, and guide stakeholder

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📍 London, UK, United Kingdom· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, including the security of your supply chain. The Vendor Risk Management (VRM) product was designed to provide software buyers with tools to evaluate the security of their vendors by inventorying vendors, prioritizing risks, automating security reviews and remediating findings. VRM or Third party Risk Management (TPRM) presents a massive opportunity for Vanta - representing a market of $5-$10B in ARR and a CAGR of 10.8% driven by secular tailwinds in the industry that requires more focussed and deeper scrutiny of the company’s supply chain. As a Senior Software Engineer with full stack focus, you’ll be responsible for driving complex projects across our technical stack and mentor our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to accelerate the evolution of our Vendor Risk Management product and help software buyers continuously and comprehensively monitor risks across their vendor supply chain. Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We’d love for you to join us! Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta: Lead complex, ambiguous projects end-to-end, partnering wit

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📍 London, UK, United Kingdom· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. The Vendor Monitoring Data team focuses on gathering external data and conducting risk analysis as part of Vanta's Vendor Risk Management (VRM) product. Our work provides comprehensive insights that help customers mitigate third-party risks effectively. As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you'll drive complex projects across our technical stack while mentoring our talented engineering team. This role offers a unique opportunity to delve into a hyper-focused subject area: external attack surface scanning. You'll tackle unique technical challenges and contribute directly to Vanta's impact by helping customers continuously and comprehensively monitor risks across their vendor supply chain. Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We're growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and contribute to a rapidly-scaling company. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as a Senior Fullstack Engineer, Vendor risk management at Vanta: Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for core products to evolve and scale into highly performant, reliable, and customizable systems Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation Engineer sophisticated monitoring and alerting systems to guarantee the reliability, speed, and integrity of our security data pipeline. Collaborate with security researchers to rapidly deploy new scanning techniques and

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📍 London, UK, United Kingdom· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a Solutions Engineer, you'll serve as a trusted technical voice, guiding customers toward clarity, feasibility, and alignment on the end-to-end solution. Because Vanta is the platform our customers rely on to build and run their GRC programmes, this is a natural next step for GRC professionals, programme managers, auditors, and compliance practitioners who want to apply their domain expertise in a strategic, customer-facing pre-sales role. You’ll be an integral part of the Sales team, working to ensure technical fit and create innovative solutions for our customers. Your attention to detail, focused on customer needs, will ultimately improve retention and overall success. With this role being specific to support our DACH Market account teams and customers, having full German Language proficiency is a must for this successful candidate. This role will be based from our London office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. GRC practitioners are especially encouraged to apply—whether you've managed GRC programmes in-house, audited them as an internal or external auditor, or helped customers meet their GRC programme needs at a GRC vendor, you'll bring exactly the customer empathy and domain fluency this role thrives on. What you’ll do as a Solutions Engineer at Vanta: Own the technical relationship with our commercial prospects/customers Develop a deep understanding of our product capabilities, integrations, configurations messaging, partner ecosystem, and competitive landscape. Listen carefully to prospects and clients to provide market feedback to the product te

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📍 London, London, United Kingdom· Full-time· Remote
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? As a Machine Learning Engineer on our Applied ML team, you will work directly with customers to quickly understand their greatest problems and design and implement solutions using Large Language Models. You’ll apply your problem-solving ability, creativity, and technical skills to close the last-mile gap in Enterprise AI adoption. You’ll be able to deliver products like early startup CTOs/CEOs do and disrupt some of the most important industries and institutions globally! As a Machine Learning Engineer (Applied ML), you will: Plan and execute large-group projects that carry through from ideation to production. Bring cross-functional alignment across engineering, product and other disciplines. Mentor a distributed team of engineers in subject matter expertise. Identify opportunities and gaps in existing models and strategize what to work on. Work closely with product teams to develop solutions. Engage in collaborations with our partner organizations. Assist our legal teams with preparation of patents on developed IP. Join us at a pivotal moment, shape what we build and wear multiple hats! You may be a good fit if y

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📍 London, London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! We’re looking for a senior engineer to help build, maintain and evolve the training framework that powers our frontier-scale language models. This role sits at the intersection of large-scale training, distributed systems, and HPC infrastructure. You will design and maintain the core components that enable fast, reliable, and scalable model training — and build the tooling that connects research ideas to thousands of GPUs. If you enjoy working across the full stack of ML systems, this role gives you the opportunity and autonomy to have massive impact. What You’ll Work On Build and own the training framework responsible for large-scale LLM training. Design distributed training abstractions (data/tensor/pipeline parallelism, FSDP/ZeRO strategies, memory management, checkpointing). Improve training throughput and stability on multi-node clusters (e.g., GB200/300, AMD, H200/100). Develop and maintain tooling for monitoring, logging, debugging, and developer ergonomics. Collaborate closely with infra teams to ensure our cluster, container environments, and hardware configurations support high-performance training. Investigate and res

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📍 London, London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! About the Role We're seeking a Senior/Staff Engineer to build and maintain the automation infrastructure that powers the development cycles of our North platform. This engineer will design and implement robust automation systems that enable engineers to efficiently test and validate changes across diverse environments and configurations. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure and standards. You'll build the systems, frameworks, and culture that allow the rest of engineering to own quality themselves; improving and extending our testing platform by creating the infrastructure that allows engineers to write and execute tests, and enable every engineering team to ship with more confidence. Key Responsibilities Design and implement automation pipelines that support comprehensive testing across multiple environments with varying feature flags and realistic customer data profiles Create intelligent testing agents that simulate real user behavior to validate different configuration combinations Develop and maintain GitHub workflows and actions to automate testing, deployment, and validation processes Manage and optimize H

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📍 London, Greater London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About the Team The Applications Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. You’ll join the team responsible for running the core infrastructure that supports products like ChatGPT and the API. The systems we support include our kubernetes clusters, infrastructure deployment, our networking stack, cloud abstractions, and more. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role The cloud infrastructure team builds and maintains infrastructure abstractions allowing OpenAI to ship products quickly and scalably. In this role, you will: Design and build the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale Ensure our infrastructure can scale to the next order of magnitude Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 5+ years building core infrastructure Have experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale Have experience building abstractions over cloud platforms Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change 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

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