OpenAI · 2 hours ago
Software Engineer, Platform Systems
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid LevelOpenAI 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 Platform Systems team, you will design and build distributed systems that enhance the visibility and reliability of large-scale AI training workloads.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design and build distributed failure detection, tracing, and profiling systems for large-scale AI training jobs
Develop tooling to identify slow, faulty, or misbehaving nodes and provide actionable visibility into system behavior
Improve observability, reliability, and performance across OpenAI’s training platform
Debug and resolve issues in complex, high-throughput distributed systems
Collaborate with systems, infrastructure, and research teams to evolve platform capabilities
Extend and adapt failure detection systems or tracing systems to support new training paradigms and workloads
Qualification
Required
Design and build distributed failure detection, tracing, and profiling systems for large-scale AI training jobs
Develop tooling to identify slow, faulty, or misbehaving nodes and provide actionable visibility into system behavior
Improve observability, reliability, and performance across OpenAI's training platform
Debug and resolve issues in complex, high-throughput distributed systems
Collaborate with systems, infrastructure, and research teams to evolve platform capabilities
Extend and adapt failure detection systems or tracing systems to support new training paradigms and workloads
Care deeply about performance, stability, and observability in distributed systems
Enjoy finding and fixing issues in large-scale systems and automating operational workflows
Have experience writing low-level software where system details matter
Understand hardware, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
Have a background in high-performance computing or low-level systems engineering
Are excited to work on critical infrastructure that powers frontier AI research
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
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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