Software Engineer, Platform Systems
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
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 design and build distributed systems that give visibility into large-scale training workloads. You'll work on failure detection, tracing and observability, build tooling to find slow or faulty nodes, and debug complex high-throughput distributed systems.
Requirements
- Experience writing low-level software where system details matter
- Understanding of hardware, operating systems, networking, concurrency and distributed systems
- Background in high-performance computing or low-level systems engineering
Responsibilities
- Design and build distributed failure detection, tracing and profiling systems for AI training jobs
- Develop tooling to identify slow, faulty or misbehaving nodes
- Improve observability, reliability and performance across the training platform
- Debug and resolve issues in complex distributed systems
- Collaborate with systems, infrastructure and research teams
- Extend failure detection and tracing systems to new training paradigms and workloads
