Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems)
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 35M AGO
Frontier labonsite$295k–$536k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build and operate reliable infrastructure powering frontier AI research workflows.
- Evolve bespoke bare-metal systems toward scalable, maintainable platforms.
- Partner closely with researchers to turn needs into durable solutions.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Independent, high-ownership infrastructure engineer who loves debugging complex systems and building automation that reduces toil. Pragmatic, curious about how systems scale, and motivated by making researchers faster.
Requirements
- Strong systems fundamentals with understanding of how infrastructure scales in practice
- Comfortable with Linux, networking, Kubernetes, provisioning and distributed systems operations
- Able to write software to automate, debug and improve infrastructure systems
- Able to independently drive ambiguous infrastructure work from definition through execution
- Pragmatic about build vs. buy and focused on reliable systems that reduce operational friction
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