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 and 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
• Extend and adapt failure detection systems or tracing systems to support new training paradigms and workloads

Requirements

• Experience writing low-level software where system details matter
• Understanding of hardware, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
• Background in high-performance computing or low-level systems engineering
• Deep interest in performance, stability, and observability in distributed systems

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.