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Software Engineer, Kernel Performance & AI Tooling

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labremote$266k–$445k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Advance kernel development and performance for next-gen AI-native silicon systems.
  • Build AI-assisted workflows to make kernel optimization faster and more reliable.
  • Design observability and validation for AI-driven optimization systems.

What they offer

  • Offers Equity

Ideal candidate

A systems-minded engineer energized by low-level performance work who sees AI as a force multiplier for engineering velocity and enjoys moving between research exploration and production execution.

Requirements

  • Strong systems or tooling engineering experience with low-level software, performance optimization, or infrastructure
  • Experience with developer tooling, debugging infrastructure, profiling, observability, or workflow design
  • Depth in kernel development, accelerator architecture, compiler systems, or related performance-critical domains
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted systems, agentic workflows, post-training, or reinforcement learning
  • Strong experimental judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to move between research and production
  • Interest in compilers, DSLs, program synthesis, or AI for systems

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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