Base Salary
$380k - $380k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering efforts to improve model serving, inference performance, and system efficiency
- Provide technical mentorship and oversight for a junior engineering team
- Optimize kernels and data movement to improve system throughput and reliability
- Partner with research and product teams to ensure models perform effectively at scale
- Design, build, and improve critical serving infrastructure for Sora’s growth and reliability needs
- Engage in model design to ensure trained models meet deployment requirements
Requirements
- Deep expertise in model performance optimization, particularly at the inference layer
- Strong background in kernel-level systems, data movement, and low-level performance tuning
- Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers without formal management responsibilities
- Ability to set technical direction and drive complex initiatives to completion
- Interest in scaling high-performing AI systems for real-world multimodal workloads
Benefits
- Hybrid work model requiring 3 days in the San Francisco office per week
- Relocation assistance for new employees
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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.