Software Engineer, Compute Foundations
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labonsite$255k–$490k
At a glance
Highlights
- Turn large heterogeneous GPU fleets into dependable compute for research.
- Own machine lifecycle from provisioning through recovery and decommissioning.
- Expand platform across new sites and generations of GPU hardware.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Distributed systems engineer who loves connecting software with bare-metal reality. You care about reliability at scale and collaborate across hardware and software teams to make fleets dependable.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience owning production distributed systems or infrastructure services
- Experience building infrastructure systems using Kubernetes APIs and reconciliation to manage resources
- Understanding of bare-metal lifecycle from power-on to workload-ready, including PXE, DHCP/DNS, BMCs, firmware, Linux, drivers, images or configuration management
- Ability to design reliable APIs and asynchronous workflows with attention to concurrency, consistency, idempotency and failures
- Ability to diagnose reliability and performance issues across service, OS and machine boundaries
- Effective collaboration across engineering specialties with clear communication of tradeoffs
- Experience building multi-site or multi-region infrastructure control planes
- Experience with GPU or HPC infrastructure, including topology and shared dependencies
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