Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labonsitesenior$293k–$325k
At a glance
Highlights
- Design and build scalable backend systems powering consumer devices.
- Architect APIs and infrastructure from prototype to large-scale deployment.
- Collaborate with hardware and product teams on end-to-end solutions.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Experienced backend builder who thrives in fast-paced collaboration and cares about robust, scalable systems from early prototype to large scale, with end-to-end product thinking from hardware to cloud.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend systems
- Proven track record of building and scaling systems from early stage to large scale
- Proficient with Python and Go, and familiar with a range of server-side technologies
- Strong grasp of system design, performance optimization, and security best practices
- Can reason about full-stack tradeoffs from hardware through cloud infrastructure
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud architectures
- Background in instrumentation, analytics, and performance tuning
- Familiar with hardware-cloud integrations or applied AI services
- remote policy
- Hybrid - 4 days in office per week
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets