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# Software Engineer, Astral

- **Company:** OpenAI Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Compilers, Computer Programming, Programming Tools, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, System Programming, Rust (Programming Language), Free and Open-Source Software, Programming Languages
- **Published:** August 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88194836/1

## About the Role

* 5+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant engineering roles.
 * High agency and comfort operating in a fast-moving environment, with strong ownership of security, reliability, and operational excellence.
 * Strong developer empathy and communication skills, including experience maintaining open source projects.
 * Exceptional systems engineering fundamentals and a track record of leading complex projects from ambiguous problem statements through to user impact.
 * Proficiency in one or more system programming languages (like Rust).

## Description

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to build next-generation programming language tooling. If you like writing high-performance Rust, it could be a good fit; if you like thinking about the future of programming, it could also be a good fit. Strong candidates tend to have deep experience with Rust, Python, open source, compilers, or developer tools - but few candidates are deep in all of these areas, and we've hired candidates without prior Rust or Python experience.

In this role, you will:

 * Design and implement features in Astral's existing open source projects (Ruff, uv, ty, and python-build-standalone, and more).
 * Support Astral's open source projects as a maintainer, triaging user issues, reviewing pull requests, and participating in community discussions.
 * Evolve the Astral toolchain to accelerate development velocity at OpenAI.
 * Build entirely new tools, in entirely different programming ecosystems, to power the future of agentic software development.


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