Base Salary
$266k - $445k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build developer tooling and workflows that accelerate kernel development, performance optimization, debugging, integration, and deployment.
- Develop observability, diagnostics, and validation infrastructure for AI-assisted optimization systems.
- Optimize production kernels by formulating optimization problems, running search loops, analyzing bottlenecks, debugging generated implementations, and delivering production improvements.
- Design abstractions, interfaces, and automation systems for kernel optimization, correctness validation, and hardware-software co-design.
- Improve AI-assisted optimization systems using better datasets, evaluations, benchmarking, and research infrastructure.
- Partner with research and engineering teams to translate new ideas into practical production systems and long-term infrastructure.
Requirements
- Strong systems or tooling engineering experience in low-level software, performance optimization, or infrastructure.
- Experience with developer tooling, debugging infrastructure, profiling, observability, or technical-user 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 for engineering or research applications.
- Hands-on experience optimizing code for GPUs, high-performance CPUs, or custom accelerators is preferred.
- Interest in compilers, DSLs, program synthesis, or AI for systems is preferred.
- Ability to work across software and hardware boundaries and between research exploration and production execution.
- Candidates may need to meet legal status requirements under U.S. export control laws and regulations.
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.