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Software Engineer, Platform Systems

OpenAI · London, UK

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build failure detection and tracing for training on massive custom supercomputers.
  • Improve reliability and performance of frontier-scale AI training platform.
  • Debug complex distributed jobs with researchers across OpenAI.

Ideal candidate

Low-level systems thinker who cares deeply about performance, stability, and observability and loves debugging large-scale 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 complex, high-throughput distributed systems
  • Passion for performance, stability, and observability in 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
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