OpenAI

Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Architecture

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3 months ago

Base Salary

$295k - $380k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Review, improve, and clean up code across training frameworks and adjacent infrastructure.
  • Identify risky or low-quality changes before they land and raise the code quality bar.
  • Debug issues across ML training systems, GPUs, clusters, networking, and related infrastructure.
  • Unblock researchers and engineers dealing with broken training jobs, flaky workflows, and brittle internal tooling.
  • Improve the reliability, maintainability, and usability of the robotics team’s training framework.
  • Solve practical engineering problems that directly affect team velocity.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and excellent code review judgment.
  • Experience with ML systems, training frameworks, GPUs, distributed systems, infrastructure, or similarly complex technical environments.
  • Ability to read and debug unfamiliar codebases quickly and identify root causes.
  • Ability to ship high-quality code with strong velocity and pragmatic judgment.
  • A low-ego, responsive approach focused on helping researchers and engineers move faster.
  • Preference for highly effective hands-on individual-contributor work over broad, process-heavy initiatives.
  • Experience reviewing messy, fast-moving, or AI-generated codebases.

Benefits

  • Based in San Francisco, California, with an expectation to work in the office five days per week.
  • Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.
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.