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Software Engineer, Core Network Engineering

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 35M AGO

Frontier labonsite$230k–$342k
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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
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