Technical Lead - Training Runtime, Data(set) Movement
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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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own datasets across training infrastructure, setting direction for how training jobs read data. You will design a unified read platform, define APIs and versioning, build reliability into the read path, create data visualizers and write production code while aligning researchers and infrastructure teams.
Requirements
- Built or owned dataset, data loading, storage or distributed training infrastructure at large scale
- Care about API design, debugging, performance and correctness
- Understanding of failure modes of large distributed training jobs
- Experience with stateful iterators, checkpoint/restart semantics, caching, remote services or high-throughput storage reads
- Comfortable working across Python and lower-level systems code
- Experience with multimodal, video, reinforcement learning or pretraining data pipelines
Responsibilities
- Design and build a unified dataset read platform for multiple training frameworks
- Define dataset APIs, storage-format expectations, registration/versioning and migration paths
- Build reliability into the read path, including stateful iteration, caching, fast restart and recovery
- Build terminal and web-based visualizers for text, multimodal and reinforcement learning data
- Write and review production code in data loading, service, caching and reliability paths
- Partner with training framework, reinforcement learning, multimodal, storage, runtime and cluster infrastructure teams
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks 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
