Software Engineer, Platform Systems

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed failure detection, tracing, and profiling systems for large-scale AI training jobs
• Develop tooling to identify slow, faulty, or misbehaving nodes to provide actionable visibility into system behavior
• Improve observability, reliability, and performance across OpenAI’s training platform
• Debug and resolve issues in complex, high-throughput distributed systems
• Collaborate with systems, infrastructure, and research teams to evolve platform capabilities

Requirements

• Experience with distributed systems and low-level software development
• Strong knowledge of operating systems and networking expertise
• Proficiency in concurrency management
• Background in high-performance computing (HPC) or low-level systems engineering
• Deep interest in performance, stability, and observability in large-scale systems

Benefits

• Competitive salary ($310K – $460K) and generous equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave and flexible PTO
• Daily meals in the office and meal delivery credits
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Relocation support for eligible employees

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.