Software Engineer, Implicit Signals
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 35M AGO
Frontier labremote$347k–$445k
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