According to Greg Brockman (@gdb), OpenAI is expanding its research devprod team to address the growing demand for advanced development tooling and infrastructure, driven by AI agents significantly increasing code output. The team focuses on large-scale continuous integration (CI), test infrastructure, monorepo tooling, build and packaging systems, and GPU- and ML-aware toolchains, optimizing the end-to-end pipeline from research experiments to production. This hiring initiative reflects the AI industry's shift toward scalable, resilient software engineering infrastructure to support rapid innovation and deployment, creating substantial business opportunities for engineers passionate about high-impact, large-scale AI systems (Source: Greg Brockman, Twitter, Jan 8, 2026).