OpenAI · 9 hours ago
Software Engineer, Frontier Systems
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$295K/yr - $440K/yr
7+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Frontier Systems team is seeking a Software Engineer to build critical infrastructure for supercomputers, ensuring reliability during model training and automating system health checks to minimize disruptions.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Own and improve the system health checks that keep our hyperscale supercomputers stable during model training
Lead deep dives into hardware failures and system-level bugs to understand how things break at scale
Build automation that monitors and fixes issues across thousands of machines - so researchers can keep moving without interruption
Qualification
Required
7+ years of industry experience in software engineering
Proficiency with Python and shell scripting
A high degree of comfort digging into noisy data with SQL, PromQL, and Pandas or any other tool necessary
Experience developing reproducible analyses
A balance of strengths in building and operationalizing
Preferred
Experience with low level details of hardware components, protocols, and associated Linux tooling (e.g., PCIe, Infiniband, networking, power management, kernel perf tuning)
Experience with visualization of large data centers and networks
Expertise with network operations and tooling
Expertise with power management and stabilization
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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