Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

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Responsibilities

• ▹Build and deeply optimize reliable system software for large-scale compute systems
• ▹Design and operate infrastructure across accelerators, CPUs, NICs, switches, storage, data centers, orchestration, and scheduling
• ▹Profile, benchmark, and optimize training workloads across compute, memory, storage, networking, NCCL, and scheduling
• ▹Create hardware-aware automation for provisioning, firmware upgrades, and incident response
• ▹Build CaaS, agent infrastructure, profiling, observability, and benchmarking tools for researchers and engineers
• ▹Turn operational lessons into better systems and clearer ownership boundaries across teams
• ▹Collaborate across research, engineering, security, networking, and hardware teams

Requirements

• ▹Strong software engineering skills and experience building, operating, or improving production infrastructure systems
• ▹Experience in one or more relevant areas: distributed systems, operating systems, networking protocols, RDMA, NCCL, storage, Kubernetes, scheduling, observability, reliability engineering, HPC, GPU infrastructure
• ▹Ability to diagnose complex system behavior across software, hardware, networking, and workload layers
• ▹Comfort with ambiguity, strong ownership, and a bias toward practical, durable solutions
• ▹Interest in infrastructure that directly enables frontier AI research and product impact

Soft skills

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.