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Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power Management

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsitesenior$295k–$445k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build power management for the world's largest AI supercomputers.
  • Stabilize grid-level power fluctuations from frontier training workloads.
  • Drive power throttling to dynamically balance workload and infrastructure.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

A deeply curious systems thinker who thrives on autonomy, digging into noisy multidisciplinary problems and building automation that keeps hyperscale supercomputers reliable and efficient.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on solving large-scale, system-level challenges.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with automation and scripting tools (e.g., shell scripting).
  • Experience with distributed systems to efficiently aggregate and analyze streaming data.
  • Knowledge of electrical engineering concepts including digital signal processing, power systems, Fast Fourier Transforms, or related areas.
  • Experience in system-level investigations and development of automated solutions to address power management, fault detection, and remediation.
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to dig into noisy data (experience with SQL, PromQL, Pandas, etc.).
  • Comfort working with both hardware and software teams to solve multidisciplinary problems.

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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