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Software Engineer, Compute Foundations

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labonsite$255k–$490k
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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
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