Software Engineer, Codex Cloud
About the Team With Codex we’re building an AI software engineer. One that you can pair with, delegate to, or even ask to take on future tasks proactively.
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Software Engineer, Codex Cloud at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team With Codex we’re building an AI software engineer. One that you can pair with, delegate to, or even ask to take on future tasks proactively.
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- Shape the evolution of Codex itself by identifying how teams actually use (and break) AI-powered software engineering, and driving changes across product, infrastructure, and model behavior to make Codex a truly reliable teammate for organizations.
- Design customer-facing (across consumer and enterprise segments) software engineering experiences end-to-end to automate and empower engineers to safely build and deliver software to their customers.
- Build the core team and enterprise primitives that make Codex usable at scale including container orchestration, virtual machine provisioning/configuration, execution sandboxes, shared block storage, RBAC, admin and audit surfaces, usage, rate limits and pricing controls, managed configuration and constraints, and analytics that give teams and operators deep visibility into how Codex is being used.
- Design and own secure, observable, full-stack systems that power Codex across web, IDEs, CLI, and CI/CD, integrating with enterprise identity and governance systems (SSO/SAML/OIDC, SCIM, policy enforcement) and building data-access patterns that are performant, compliant, and trustworthy.
- Lead real-world deployments and launches by working directly with customers and GTM to roll Codex out across teams, using live usage and operational signals to rapidly iterate and turn messy, real-world feedback into scalable product and platform improvements.
- Have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience turning ideas into production-grade large-scale distributed systems, thinking holistically about balancing speed, performance, costs, and user experience.
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- Enjoy 0 -> 1 environments, can navigate ambiguity, and bring crisp product thinking to technical trade-offs.
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