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OpenAI
Posted 8 hours ago

Software Engineer

OpenAISoftware Engineer

Requirements

Software engineering background, Experience with distributed systems, Infrastructure platform experience, Analytical and debugging skills

Skills

Distributed SystemsinfrastructurePerformance Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Develop systems and tooling to measure, monitor, and improve token throughput across first-party and partner-owned compute environments
  • Support performance benchmarking, tokenomics analysis, and model porting across heterogeneous infrastructure environments
  • Build tooling to integrate external or partner infrastructure into OpenAI’s internal compute, observability, and workload management systems
  • Develop and monitor operational metrics including billing, usage, SLAs, utilization, reliability, and throughput
  • Identify bottlenecks across hardware, networking, software, and workload enablement
  • Partner with compute, infrastructure, networking, finance, and operations teams to translate raw capacity into usable workload-serving capacity
  • Build dashboards, automation, and reporting systems for TaaS capacity and performance

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering background building systems, tooling, automation, or infrastructure platforms
  • Experience with compute infrastructure, distributed systems, performance engineering, or production operations
  • Ability to reason about token throughput, utilization, benchmarking, and infrastructure efficiency
  • Experience integrating external systems or partner environments into internal infrastructure stacks
  • Strong analytical and debugging skills across hardware, networking, and software domains

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with GPU clusters, AI infrastructure, or workload optimization
  • Familiarity with model porting, inference/training workloads, or token economics
  • Experience building monitoring systems for billing, usage, SLAs, or infrastructure reliability
  • Background in systems engineering, observability, or platform engineering

About the Company

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

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Software Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco

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