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Software Engineer, Model Inference

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsitesenior$266k–$500k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Bring the world's largest AI models to production at high volume and low latency.
  • Improve inference performance, throughput, and efficiency across the model stack.
  • Partner with researchers to accelerate progress via fast, reliable inference.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Self-directed engineer who owns problems end-to-end and obsesses over performance and reliability. Humble, collaborative builder excited to help researchers ship frontier AI models to the world.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience
  • Understanding of modern ML architectures and intuition for optimizing inference performance
  • Familiarity with PyTorch, NVIDIA GPUs, NCCL, CUDA, InfiniBand, MPI, and NVLink
  • Experience architecting, building, observing, and debugging production distributed systems, ideally performance-critical
  • Experience rebuilding or refactoring production systems for rapidly increasing scale
  • End-to-end ownership, self-directed, humble and collaborative

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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