OpenAI

Software Engineer, Platform Systems

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8 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

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 system visibility.
  • Improve observability, reliability, and performance across the 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 and tracing systems for new training paradigms and workloads.

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.
  • Interest in performance, stability, observability, large-scale debugging, and operational automation.

Categories

OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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