Software Engineer, Compute Foundations
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You'll build distributed systems that provision, configure and manage compute throughout its lifecycle. You'll design Kubernetes controllers, lifecycle APIs and provisioning services, build reliable reconciliation and recovery, improve control-plane throughput and latency, and integrate new sites and GPU hardware generations.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience owning production distributed systems or infrastructure services
- Experience with infrastructure systems using Kubernetes APIs and reconciliation
- Understanding of bare-metal node bring-up, with depth in areas such as PXE, DHCP/DNS, BMCs, firmware, Linux, drivers, images, or configuration management
- Ability to design reliable APIs and asynchronous workflows
- Ability to diagnose reliability and performance problems across service, OS, and machine boundaries
- Effective cross-team communication
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based controllers and distributed services across sites
- Define APIs and resource models for lifecycle operations across hardware platforms and providers
- Build provisioning and configuration services covering network boot, hardware management interfaces, firmware, OS images, and drivers
- Develop lifecycle management for discovery, allocation, provisioning, upgrades, maintenance, recovery, and decommissioning
- Design reliable reconciliation and recovery with staged rollouts
- Improve control-plane throughput, API latency, and time to desired state
- Build integrations that bring new sites and GPU hardware generations into the platform
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents) plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures, plus paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus