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Posted 8 hours ago

Software Engineer, Platform Systems

OpenAISoftware Engineer, Platform Systems

Requirements

Low-level software development, Distributed systems knowledge, High-performance computing background, Operating systems and networking expertise

Skills

Distributed SystemsHigh-Performance ComputingObservability

About the role

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.

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Software Engineer, Platform Systems

OpenAI · London

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