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Machine Learning Engineer, API Multicloud

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsite$223k–$423k
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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
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