Base Salary
$230k - $342k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate networking systems supporting large-scale AI training and inference infrastructure.
- Improve performance, reliability, and scalability across host networking, datacenter fabrics, and WAN systems.
- Develop automation for provisioning, configuration management, validation, upgrades, and networking infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Build tooling and observability systems for network health, performance analysis, debugging, and automated remediation.
- Optimize network performance across RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, Ethernet, and high-performance GPU interconnects.
- Define and operationalize networking protocols, readiness criteria, and continuous validation systems.
- Partner with compute, storage, hardware, and infrastructure teams to scale networking with fleet growth.
- Contribute to topology design, capacity planning, failure-domain, and network-reliability architecture decisions.
- Diagnose complex distributed systems and networking issues across heterogeneous compute environments.
Requirements
- Experience building or operating large-scale networking or distributed systems infrastructure.
- Comfort working close to the hardware/software boundary.
- Experience with Linux networking, kernel systems, NICs, RDMA, or performance-sensitive infrastructure software.
- Experience with high-performance networking technologies such as InfiniBand, RoCE, DPDK, or large-scale Ethernet fabrics.
- Experience with datacenter networking, WAN systems, or host networking stacks.
- Ability to debug complex systems and performance bottlenecks across multiple layers of the stack.
- Production software development experience in C++, Python, or Go.
- Strong fundamentals in networking, operating systems, distributed systems, or infrastructure engineering.
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.