Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 1H AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$266k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build analytics systems researchers use to understand model quality and behavior.
- Own ingestion, storage and querying for metrics from pretraining and RL.
- Turn recurring research needs into reusable platform capabilities for many teams.
What they offer
- equity
Ideal candidate
An ownership-driven systems builder who thrives on ambiguous research problems and turns them into simple, reliable platforms. You enjoy partnering directly with researchers to unblock frontier work.
Requirements
- Owned a critical distributed system or research platform end to end to production adoption
- Experience with high-performance languages like Rust or C++ including concurrency and profiling
- Deep expertise in distributed databases, storage engines, analytics or query execution
- Experience with ClickHouse or similar OLAP, columnar or time-series systems
- Strong CS fundamentals and reasoning about partitioning, replication and failure modes
- Enjoy working directly with researchers to understand needs and ship useful platforms
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