Software Engineer, Platform Systems

OpenAI

about 1 month ago

San Francisco, CA, USA

Mid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$310k - $460k/yr

Responsibilities

Design and build distributed failure detection, tracing, and profiling systems for large-scale AI training jobs.
Develop tooling to identify slow, faulty, or misbehaving nodes and provide actionable visibility into system behavior.
Improve observability, reliability, and performance across OpenAI’s training platform.
Debug and resolve issues in complex, high-throughput distributed systems.
Collaborate with systems, infrastructure, and research teams to evolve platform capabilities.
Extend and adapt failure detection systems or tracing systems to support new training paradigms and workloads.

Care deeply about performance, stability, and observability in distributed systems.
Enjoy finding and fixing issues in large-scale systems and automating operational workflows.
Have experience writing low-level software where system details matter.
Understand hardware, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems.
Have a background in high-performance computing or low-level systems engineering.
Are excited to work on critical infrastructure that powers frontier AI research.