Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - Research

Highlights

• Build dataset infrastructure powering OpenAI's next-generation training stack.
• Scale data pipelines across thousands of GPUs for frontier models.
• Design unified APIs for multimodal data that cannot fit in memory.

What they offer

• Equity

Ideal candidate

A collaborative, infrastructure-minded engineer who takes pride in reliability and scale and finds joy in building foundational systems that just work for researchers.

Requirements

• Strong engineering fundamentals with experience in distributed systems, data pipelines, or infrastructure
• Experience building APIs, modular code, and scalable abstractions with a focus on user experience
• Comfortable debugging performance bottlenecks across large fleets of machines
• Collaborative and humble, excited to own foundational ML infrastructure