Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC
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 be responsible for the reliability and uptime of OpenAI's compute fleet. You will build automation for provisioning and managing server fleets, develop health monitoring tools, collaborate with cluster and networking teams, partner with external operators, and fix performance bottlenecks. Prior hardware expertise is not required.
Requirements
- Experience managing large-scale server environments
- Balance of strengths in building and operationalizing
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages
- Strong Linux, networking, and server hardware knowledge
- Comfort with SQL, PromQL, and Pandas or similar tools for analyzing noisy data
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain automation systems for provisioning and managing server fleets
- Develop tools to monitor server health, performance, and lifecycle events
- Collaborate with clusters, networking, and infrastructure teams
- Partner with external operators to ensure quality
- Identify and fix performance bottlenecks and inefficiencies
- Continuously improve automation to reduce manual work
Benefits
- 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, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 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
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends