Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power Management
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 will develop system-level and software-level solutions to optimize power usage in large supercomputers, build automation to monitor power consumption during training workloads, and design algorithms to stabilize fluctuations that could affect grid reliability. You will build tools for real-time fault detection and remediation, drive power throttling mechanisms, and work with hardware design teams to integrate power control requirements.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience solving large-scale, system-level challenges
- Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with automation and scripting tools (e.g., shell scripting)
- Experience with distributed systems to aggregate and analyze streaming data
- Knowledge of electrical engineering concepts including digital signal processing, power systems, Fast Fourier Transforms
- Experience in system-level investigations and automated solutions for power management, fault detection, and remediation
- Strong analytical skills with noisy data (SQL, PromQL, Pandas)
Responsibilities
- Develop system-level and software-level solutions to optimize power usage in large-scale supercomputers
- Build automation to monitor power consumption and design algorithms to stabilize fluctuations
- Design tools for real-time monitoring, detection, and remediation of power-related faults
- Translate electrical system requirements into code
- Drive development of power throttling mechanisms at the IT system level
- Collaborate with hardware design teams to integrate power control requirements
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 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 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
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Performance-related bonus
