Software Engineer, Platform Systems
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 1H AGO
Frontier labonsite$380k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build failure detection, tracing and profiling for large-scale AI training jobs.
- Operate training workloads on custom-built supercomputers at frontier scale.
- Surface bottlenecks and faulty nodes to optimize massive distributed training.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
You are a low-level systems thinker obsessed with performance, stability and observability who loves hunting down faults in massive distributed systems to power frontier AI research.
Requirements
- Experience writing low-level software where system details matter
- Understanding of hardware, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
- Background in high-performance computing or low-level systems engineering
- Experience debugging and improving reliability and performance in large-scale distributed 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