Software Engineer, Data Acquisition
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labonsite$295k–$536k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own web crawling and GPTBot services powering model training data collection.
- Build petabyte-scale acquisition systems supporting OpenAI's model training.
- Partner with legal and data teams on compliant, large-scale data flow.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
An adaptable engineer who thrives owning large-scale data challenges end-to-end and collaborating across teams. You care about compliant, reliable data foundations for AI and communicate clearly.
Requirements
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
- 4+ years of industry experience in software development.
- Experience with large web crawlers a plus
- Strong expertise in large stateful distributed systems and data processing.
- Proficiency in Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts.
- Willingness and enthusiasm for trying new approaches and technologies.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
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