OpenAI

Software Engineer, Productivity - Model Performance

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4 months ago

Base Salary

$230k - $385k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Improve development workflows for engineers working on model performance infrastructure.
  • Design and improve CI/CD, release, validation, and testing pipelines.
  • Build and maintain tools that improve reliability, iteration speed, and engineering confidence.
  • Partner with engineers to identify friction in testing, debugging, deployment, and development workflows.
  • Contribute to infrastructure supporting performance-critical training and inference systems.
  • Improve developer experience across Python-heavy codebases and performance-oriented infrastructure.
  • Contribute to the Triton project and related performance engineering systems.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with CI/CD, developer infrastructure, testing systems, tooling, or build and release workflows.
  • Strong Python skills and interest in building reliable, scalable developer tools and infrastructure.
  • Experience improving large-scale engineering workflows, especially CI reliability, test infrastructure, and debugging velocity.
  • Experience with the PyTorch ecosystem is highly relevant.
  • Experience with C++ or Rust is a nice-to-have but not required.
  • Ability to work autonomously, collaborate closely with technical teams, and operate effectively in an ambiguous environment.
  • Direct inference or model performance experience is not required, but enthusiasm for learning the domain is expected.
OpenAI

About OpenAI

1,001-5,000 employees

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.