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Software Engineer, GPT Infrastructure

OpenAI · San Francisco · Seattle

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labremote$293k–$385k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Turn model inference advances into reliable production capabilities at scale.
  • Automate optimization workflows to be reproducible and trustworthy.
  • Build systems spanning distributed execution and performance engineering.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Systems-minded engineer who loves turning research prototypes into reliable platforms and diagnosing complex performance puzzles across hardware and software with strong ownership.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering experience building distributed systems and infrastructure platforms
  • Proficiency in systems-oriented languages such as Python, C++, Go, or Rust
  • Experience designing and operating APIs and durable job orchestration workflows
  • Strong understanding of Linux, networking, storage, containers and distributed execution
  • Ability to diagnose model execution issues across software and hardware boundaries
  • Experience using profiling, tracing and benchmarking to guide decisions
  • Strong ownership collaborating across research, engineering and partner teams

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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