over 1 year ago
Base Salary
$230k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to an in-house container orchestration platform designed to scale massive compute clusters beyond systems such as Kubernetes.
- Develop and maintain FastAPI and gRPC APIs for agent infrastructure used in training and production.
- Use Terraform to provision and evolve complex research and production infrastructure.
- Collaborate with research teams to establish and optimize systems for novel AI training runs and experimental applications.
- Build, maintain, and scale the production platform supporting OpenAI agents and agentic products.
- Optimize performance across globally distributed systems, virtualization environments, and containerized workloads.
Requirements
- Deep experience building large-scale machine learning infrastructure and reasoning about training bottlenecks and performance optimization.
- Experience rapidly building systems from 0-to-1 and scaling them to very large production workloads.
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform.
- Deep technical expertise in virtualization and containerization technologies, such as Kata, Firecracker, gVisor, or Sysbox.
- Ability to solve complex, ambiguous problems involving infrastructure scalability, virtualization efficiency, and agentic capabilities.
- Experience working closely with researchers to build high-performance systems at massive scale.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with three days per week in the office.
- Role based in San Francisco, New York City, or London.
- Relocation assistance for new employees.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
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About OpenAI
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.