Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Build and deeply optimize reliable system software for large-scale compute systems running demanding AI workloads
• Design and operate infrastructure across accelerators, CPUs, NICs, switches, networking protocols, storage, and cluster orchestration
• Profile, benchmark, and optimize training workloads across compute, memory, storage, and networking bottlenecks
• Create hardware-aware automation for provisioning, firmware upgrades, and incident response
• Build CaaS, agent infrastructure, profiling, observability, and platform tools
• Collaborate across research, engineering, security, networking, and hardware teams

Requirements

• Strong software engineering skills in building or operating production infrastructure systems
• Experience in areas such as distributed systems, operating systems, networking protocols, RDMA, NCCL, storage, or Kubernetes
• Ability to debug complex system behavior across software, hardware, and networking layers
• Experience with high-performance computing, GPU infrastructure, or reliability engineering
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward practical, durable solutions

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.