Machine Learning Engineer, API Multicloud
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 1H AGO
Frontier labonsite$223k–$423k
At a glance
Highlights
- Extend OpenAI's API platform into AWS-native environments for strategic partners.
- Build production systems for fine-tuning-as-a-service and agentic workloads.
- Turn partner deployments into scalable improvements to post-training platform.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
ML engineer who thrives in 0→1 ambiguity and enjoys partnering with external teams to diagnose model behavior and turn messy needs into reliable production systems.
Requirements
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of professional engineering experience in relevant ML, infrastructure, or product-driven roles.
- Strong ML engineering experience building, training, fine-tuning, evaluating, or deploying production AI systems.
- Hands-on experience with LLM post-training methods like SFT, distillation, preference optimization, or RL.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and high-quality production code in Python, Rust, or similar.
- Experience with evaluation systems, data pipelines, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or ML platforms.
- Ability to operate across model behavior, APIs, and infrastructure with Research, Safety, and external partners.
- Comfort owning problems end-to-end through ambiguity and learning what is needed to deliver.
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