OpenAI · 4 days ago
Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$255K/yr - $490K/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 Fleet High Performance Computing team, you will be responsible for maintaining the reliability and uptime of OpenAI’s compute fleet, focusing on minimizing hardware failure and developing automated solutions.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Build and maintain automation systems for provisioning and managing server fleets
Develop tools to monitor server health, performance, and lifecycle events
Collaborate with clusters, networking, and infrastructure teams
Partner with external operators to ensure a high level of quality
Identify and fix performance bottlenecks and inefficiencies
Continuously improve automation to reduce manual work
Qualification
Required
Experience managing large-scale server environments
A balance of strengths in building and operationalizing
Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages
Strong Linux, networking, and server hardware knowledge
Comfort digging into noisy data with SQL, PromQL, and Pandas or any other tool
Preferred
Experience with low level details of hardware components, protocols, and associated Linux tooling (e.g., PCIe, Infiniband, networking, power management, kernel perf tuning)
Knowledge of hardware management protocols (e.g., IPMI, Redfish)
High-performance computing (HPC) or distributed systems experience
Prior experience developing, managing, or designing hardware
Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
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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