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OpenAI · 2 days ago

Inference Technical Lead, Sora

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityLead/Staff
money$380K/yr - $380K/yr

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Inference Technical Lead role involves optimizing model serving efficiency and driving initiatives to improve inference performance and scalability within the Sora team.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Perform engineering efforts focused on improving model serving, inference performance, and system efficiency
Drive optimizations from a kernel and data movement perspective to improve system throughput and reliability
Partner closely with research and product teams to ensure our models perform effectively at scale
Design, build, and improve critical serving infrastructure to support Sora’s growth and reliability needs

Qualification

Model performance optimizationKernel-level systemsData movementLow-level performance tuningAI systems scalingTechnical directionComplex initiative management

Required

Deep expertise in model performance optimization, particularly at the inference layer
Strong background in kernel-level systems, data movement, and low-level performance tuning
Excited about scaling high-performing AI systems that serve real-world, multimodal workloads
Ability to navigate ambiguity, set technical direction, and drive complex initiatives to completion

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

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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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