Base Salary
$295k - $445k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop system-level and software-level solutions to optimize power usage in large-scale supercomputers.
- Build automation to monitor power consumption during training workloads and design algorithms to stabilize fluctuations.
- Create tools for real-time monitoring, detection, and remediation of power-related hardware and system faults.
- Translate electrical system requirements into code and improve power-management solutions.
- Develop IT-system-level power-throttling mechanisms that dynamically adjust usage based on workloads and infrastructure limitations.
- Collaborate with hardware design teams to integrate software-driven power control requirements into IT hardware.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience focused on large-scale, system-level challenges.
- Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with automation and shell scripting.
- Experience with distributed systems for aggregating and analyzing streaming data.
- Knowledge of electrical engineering concepts such as digital signal processing, power systems, and Fast Fourier Transforms.
- Experience investigating system-level issues and developing automated solutions for power management, fault detection, and remediation.
- Strong analytical skills and experience working with noisy data using tools such as SQL, PromQL, or Pandas.
- Ability to collaborate with hardware and software teams on multidisciplinary problems.
- Bonus: expertise in power characteristics of synchronous workloads in supercomputing or model-training environments.
- Bonus: knowledge of power-control requirements in IT hardware design and experience integrating power-management features into hardware systems.
- Bonus: working knowledge of control-system fundamentals and physical-system responses to control strategies.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.