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Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsitesenior$293k–$325k
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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
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