Base Salary
$230k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provision, bootstrap, scale, and manage the lifecycle of large Kubernetes clusters.
- Build software abstractions that unify multiple clusters and provide seamless interfaces to training workloads.
- Own bare-metal node bring-up, including firmware upgrades, for repeatable large-scale deployment.
- Improve cluster restart times and accelerate firmware and operating system upgrade cycles.
- Integrate networking and hardware health systems across servers, switches, and data-center infrastructure.
- Develop monitoring and observability systems to detect issues early and maintain cluster stability under extreme load.
- Improve training performance, infrastructure utilization, resilience, cost efficiency, and uptime across large compute fleets.
Requirements
- Experience as an infrastructure, systems, or distributed systems engineer in large-scale or high-availability environments.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals, cluster scaling patterns, and containerized workloads.
- Proficiency in compute infrastructure concepts, including compute, networking, storage, and security, with experience automating cluster or data-center operations.
- Background with GPU workloads, firmware management, or high-performance computing is a bonus.
Tech Stack
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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.