Performance Engineer

Responsibilities

• Analyze and optimize performance across application, middleware, runtime, and infrastructure layers including networking, storage, Python runtime, and GPU utilization
• Develop tooling and metrics to provide deep observability into system performance
• Collaborate with infra, platform, training, and product teams to drive systemic improvements
• Influence architecture and design decisions to prioritize latency, throughput, and efficiency at scale
• Lead investigations into high-impact performance regressions or scalability issues in production
• Drive performance testing strategies and define SLAs/SLOs for critical systems

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on high-scale distributed systems
• Deep comfort with performance profiling tools and tracing systems
• Experience optimizing performance across layers such as database, networking, storage, or application runtime
• Strong understanding of OS internals, scheduling, memory management, and IO patterns
• Proven success in observability, benchmarking, or performance-focused infrastructure

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.