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Data Engineer, Core Experimentation

OpenAI · Seattle

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Frontier labremotesenior$347k–$385k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build experimentation platform powering product decisions across OpenAI.
  • Design core data pipelines feeding safety systems and product growth.
  • Partner with ChatGPT researchers to help train and deliver new models.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Experienced data engineer who cares about trustworthy experimentation and building reliable systems at scale. You thrive partnering across research and product to turn data into impactful decisions.

Requirements

  • 3+ years as a data engineer and 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java for data engineering
  • Experience with distributed processing like Hadoop, Flink, HDFS, S3
  • Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect
  • Solid understanding of Spark with ability to write and optimize Spark code
remote policy
hybrid

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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