Software Engineer, Compute Foundations Systems
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labonsite$230k–$490k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build Linux OS foundation powering frontier model training on massive GPU fleets.
- Bring new GPU platforms online and make large clusters reliable at scale.
- Own OS images, kernels, drivers and fleet-wide recovery automation.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Deep Linux systems engineer who loves debugging near hardware and making huge GPU fleets reliable. Pragmatic builder who turns recurring failures into durable automation and safe fleet-wide rollouts.
Requirements
- Significant experience building, integrating, or operating production Linux systems
- Deep experience with kernels, drivers, OS images, packages, boot, provisioning, or firmware integration
- Ability to write and maintain production-quality systems software and automation
- Experience safely delivering system-level changes with testing, staged rollout and recovery
- Ability to debug cross-layer failures spanning hardware, firmware, OS, kernel and drivers
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