Base Salary
$347k - $445k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze and optimize performance across application, middleware, runtime, and infrastructure layers.
- Develop tooling and metrics that provide deep observability into system performance.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, training, and product teams to identify performance goals and drive systemic improvements.
- Influence architecture and design decisions focused on latency, throughput, and efficiency at scale.
- Lead investigations into high-impact production performance regressions and scalability issues.
- Drive performance testing strategies and help define latency and throughput SLAs and SLOs.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record in performance or reliability of high-scale distributed systems.
- Deep familiarity with performance profiling tools and tracing systems.
- Experience optimizing databases, networking, storage, application runtimes, garbage collection, Python or Go internals, or GPU utilization.
- Strong understanding of operating-system internals, scheduling, memory management, and I/O patterns.
- Experience contributing to observability, benchmarking, or performance-focused infrastructure at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and align stakeholders around performance goals.
- Values simplicity, rigor, and collaboration when solving complex systems problems.
Benefits
- OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer committed to reasonable accommodations and inclusive hiring.
- Background checks and employment practices are administered in accordance with applicable law.
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.