ChatGPT Performance Engineer
Core
Scale performance, reliability, and efficiency of mission-critical AI systems like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.
Role type
Senior individual contributor performance engineer
Builds
High-scale distributed systems for AI products and developer APIs
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / High-performance computing / Distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
performance profiling, tracing systems, OS internals, memory management, IO patterns, Python/Golang internals, GPU utilization, networking, storage optimization, observability, benchmarking
Preferred skills
root-cause analysis, architecture-level design, SLA/SLO definition, stakeholder alignment
Technologies
Python, Golang, GPU, networking, storage, database
Responsibilities
Analyze and optimize performance across application, middleware, runtime, and infrastructure layers; Develop tooling and metrics for deep system observability; Collaborate with infra, platform, training, and product teams to drive systemic improvements; Influence architecture decisions to prioritize latency, throughput, and efficiency; Lead investigations into high-impact performance regressions; Drive performance testing strategies and define SLAs/SLOs
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
