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Software Engineer, Inference - Multi Modal

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsite$295k–$555k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Power deployment of advanced models across performant, scalable production platforms.
  • Build reliable infrastructure for real-time audio, image and multimodal workloads.
  • Partner with Research to bring next-generation multimodal models into production.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

An engineer who thrives in fast-moving, experimental spaces and loves partnering with researchers. You own ambiguous problems end-to-end and care about high-performance, scalable systems for real-world AI impact.

Requirements

  • Experience building and scaling inference systems for LLMs or multimodal models
  • Experience with GPU-based ML workloads and performance dynamics of large models with image or audio data
  • Comfortable with systems spanning networking, distributed compute and high-throughput data handling
  • Familiarity with inference tooling like vLLM, TensorRT-LLM or custom model parallel systems
  • Enjoy experimental, fast-evolving work and collaborating closely with research
  • Own problems end-to-end in ambiguous, fast-moving spaces

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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