OpenAI · 5 days ago
Software Engineer, Triton Compiler
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
3+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Software Engineer, you will help build AI systems and optimize core ML systems while working closely with the Compiler/Kernels team to enhance the performance-critical software stack for custom silicon.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Help build AI systems that achieve levels of performance that were previously impossible
Designing and optimizing core ML systems
Writing highly reliable low-level code
Advancing the algorithms and infrastructure that power our models
Responsible for the performance-critical software stack that brings OpenAI’s custom silicon to life
Design and build the compilers, languages, and high-performance kernels that allow researchers to fully exploit our first-party accelerators
Advancing Triton and its backend
Developing new compiler passes
Creating the tooling needed to write fast, correct, and deeply optimized kernels for brand-new hardware
Partner closely with the hardware team to unlock new capabilities and ensure our custom silicon can support the next generation of frontier models
Qualification
Required
3+ years of relevant engineering experience, ideally in systems, compilers, ML frameworks, or performance engineering
Owning problems end-to-end, including learning new hardware and software domains as needed
Preferred
Bonus: contributions to ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow) or compilers (e.g., LLVM, MLIR, XLA), or experience programming custom or specialized accelerators
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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