OpenAI

Software Engineer, Core Network Engineering

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5 months ago

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.

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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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