Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labremoteSenior, Staff$347k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build core platforms that let ChatGPT teams ship fast without breaking reliability.
- Design golden paths and guardrails for latency, scale, and safe rollouts.
- Turn vague 'it's slow' symptoms into precise observability and debugging tools.
What they offer
- equity
Ideal candidate
Senior or staff-level infrastructure engineer who loves building platforms that multiply other teams, with strong systems instincts and a bias for safe, fast iteration at massive scale.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
- Strong fundamentals in systems design including caching, consistency and queueing
- Ability to reason about performance, latency distributions and bottlenecks
- Track record building platforms or shared infrastructure for other teams
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across teams
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