OpenAI · 2 days ago
Software Engineer, Hardware
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$310K/yr - $460K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a software engineer on the Scaling team, you'll help build and optimize the low-level stack that orchestrates computation and data movement across OpenAI’s supercomputing clusters, focusing on high-performance runtimes and custom kernels.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design and build APIs and runtime components to orchestrate computation and data movement across heterogeneous ML workloads
Contribute to compiler infrastructure, including the development of optimizations and compiler passes to support evolving hardware
Engineer and optimize compute and data kernels, ensuring correctness, high performance, and portability across simulation and production environments
Profile and optimize system bottlenecks, especially around I/O, memory hierarchy, and interconnects, at both local and distributed scales
Develop simulation infrastructure to validate runtime behaviors, test training stack changes, and support early-stage hardware and system development
Rapidly deploy runtime and compiler updates to new supercomputing builds in close collaboration with hardware and research teams
Work across a diverse stack, primarily using Rust and Python, with opportunities to influence architecture decisions across the training framework
Qualification
Required
Proficient in systems programming (e.g., Rust, C++) and scripting languages like Python
Experience in one or more of the following areas: compiler development, kernel authoring, accelerator programming, runtime systems, distributed systems, or high-performance simulation
Deep curiosity for how large-scale systems work and enjoy making them faster, simpler, and more reliable
Excited to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment with evolving hardware and ML system demands
Value engineering excellence, technical leadership, and thoughtful system design
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.
Founded in 2015
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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