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OpenAI · 4 months ago

Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

positionSan Francisco
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityMid Level
money$250K/yr - $460K/yr

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Distributed Systems engineer, you will work to deliver powerful APIs and optimize systems for ML training workloads, focusing on stability and performance across supercomputers.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Work across our Python and Rust stack
Profile and optimize and help design for scale our compute and data capabilities
Work on deploying our training framework to our latest supercomputers rapidly responding to the changing shapes and needs of the ML systems

Qualification

Distributed SystemsPythonRustHigh performance I/OSoftware engineering skills

Required

Have worked on large distributed systems
Love figuring out how systems work and continuously come up with ideas for how to make them faster while minimizing complexity and maintenance burden
Have strong software engineering skills and are proficient in Python and Rust or equivalent

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Company

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$79B
Key Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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