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Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City · Seattle · London, UK

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Frontier labremote$230k–$405k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build the compute platform powering OpenAI's frontier research and products.
  • Bring new supercomputing capacity online and make clusters faster and reliable.
  • Turn operational lessons into stronger abstractions across research and engineering.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

A systems-minded engineer who reasons carefully about complex infrastructure and enjoys making massive compute faster, more reliable, and easier to use. You take ownership, collaborate across disciplines, and build leverage for researchers and product teams.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering skills building, operating or improving production infrastructure systems
  • Experience with distributed systems, HPC, networking, storage, scheduling or developer platforms
  • Ability to debug complex behavior across software, hardware and networking layers
  • Comfort with ambiguity, strong ownership and bias toward durable practical solutions
  • Motivated by scale, efficiency, reliability and disciplined measurement

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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