Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure
4 days agoSeniorSalary: 230K - 405KSan Francisco, New York City, Seattle, and London, UKDevopsJobs by OpenAI
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AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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 will build the compute platform behind frontier AI research and products. Depending on your background, you'll work close to hardware, on networking, storage, scheduling, CaaS and agent infrastructure, or developer tooling. You'll profile and optimize training workloads, create hardware-aware automation, and build tools that help researchers and engineers launch, debug and optimize workloads.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills and experience building or operating production infrastructure systems
- Experience in areas such as distributed systems, operating systems, networking protocols, RDMA, NCCL, storage, Kubernetes, scheduling, observability, HPC, or GPU infrastructure
- Ability to debug complex system behavior across software, hardware, networking, and workload layers
- Comfort with ambiguity and strong ownership
Responsibilities
- Build and optimize reliable system software for large-scale compute systems
- Design and operate infrastructure across accelerators, CPUs, NICs, switches, storage, data centers, orchestration, scheduling, and fleet health
- Profile, benchmark, and optimize training workloads including NCCL and collective communication
- Create hardware-aware automation for provisioning, firmware and driver upgrades, and incident response
- Build CaaS, agent infrastructure, profiling, observability, and benchmarking platform tools
- Turn operational lessons into better systems and abstractions
- Collaborate across research, engineering, security, networking, hardware, and data center teams
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents, 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated company office closures
- 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