OpenAI

Software Engineer, Hardware Health

OpenAI
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5 months ago

Base Salary

$250k - $445k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain health signals across GPUs, CPUs, networking, and platform infrastructure.
  • Build health checks that detect, remediate, and verify failures at scale with minimal latency.
  • Investigate hardware failures and system-level issues across large-scale compute environments.
  • Own node lifecycle workflows including drain, quarantine, repair, RMA, and return to service.
  • Build automation and tooling for global cluster management with minimal manual intervention.
  • Partner with workload, reliability, and provider teams to integrate health signals into training and inference systems.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of industry experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong proficiency with Python and shell scripting.
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
  • Comfort analyzing noisy operational data with SQL, PromQL, or similar tooling.
  • Experience building reproducible analyses and operational tooling.
  • Strong systems debugging and operational instincts with an ownership mindset.
  • Bonus experience includes low-level hardware systems, Linux tooling, large-scale GPU or accelerator clusters, network operations, observability, automated remediation, fleet lifecycle management, and improving reliability or workload uptime.

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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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