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Software Engineer, Implicit Signals

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 35M AGO

Frontier labremote$347k–$445k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build classification and evaluation systems giving fast feedback on model behavior.
  • Improve model-serving performance across throughput, latency, and utilization.
  • Own real-time pipelines and tools for experimentation at scale.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Product-minded distributed systems engineer who thrives owning ambiguous, large-scale platforms end-to-end and partnering closely with researchers to turn ideas into reliable measurements.

Requirements

  • Experience designing, building, and operating software services or distributed systems at scale.
  • Strong fundamentals in API design, concurrency, caching, performance, and failure recovery.
  • Ability to investigate complex production problems and make sound architectural tradeoffs.
  • A track record of owning software from initial design through deployment and ongoing operation.
  • Strong product judgment and an interest in working directly with technical users.
  • Comfort with ambiguous problems and broad ownership across multiple parts of a system.
  • Fluency in using AI agents to move quickly across multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
  • Interest in machine learning, data science, and statistics; experience with model serving, ML platforms, or inference optimization is a plus.

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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