Software Engineer, Core Network Engineering
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 35M AGO
Frontier labonsite$230k–$342k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build networking foundation behind frontier AI training and inference systems.
- Ensure networking is never the bottleneck to model training efficiency.
- Work where microseconds of latency directly impact AI performance.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Systems-minded engineer who loves working close to hardware and debugging performance-critical infrastructure at massive scale, motivated by accelerating frontier AI research.
Requirements
- Have experience building or operating large-scale networking or distributed systems infrastructure
- Are comfortable working close to the hardware/software boundary
- Have experience with Linux networking, kernel systems, NICs, RDMA, or performance-sensitive infrastructure software
- Have worked with high-performance networking technologies such as InfiniBand, RoCE, DPDK, or large-scale Ethernet fabrics
- Have experience with datacenter networking, WAN systems, or host networking stacks
- Enjoy debugging complex systems and performance bottlenecks across multiple layers of the stack
- Are comfortable writing production software in languages such as C++, Python, or Go
- Have strong systems fundamentals across networking, operating systems, distributed systems, or infrastructure engineering
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