Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure
Core
Build the compute platform behind OpenAI's research and products, turning enormous amounts of compute into a reliable engine for frontier AI.
Role type
Senior IC compute infrastructure engineer
Builds
Reliable compute platforms, cluster orchestration, high-performance networking, storage, and agent infrastructure for AI research and products
Domain
AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, distributed systems, hardware reliability
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems, operating systems, networking protocols, RDMA, NCCL, Kubernetes, scheduling, observability, reliability engineering, high-performance computing, GPU infrastructure, hardware-aware performance optimization, benchmarking, developer experience, infrastructure tooling
Preferred skills
low-level systems, high-performance computing, distributed infrastructure, reliability, CaaS, agent infrastructure, developer platforms, tooling, user experience around infrastructure
Technologies
Kubernetes, RDMA, NCCL, GPUs, NICs, switches, firmware, drivers
Responsibilities
Build and deeply optimize reliable system software for large-scale compute systems; Design and operate infrastructure across accelerators, CPUs, NICs, switches, networking protocols, storage, data centers, cluster orchestration, scheduling, and fleet health; Profile, benchmark, and optimize training workloads across compute, memory, storage, networking, NCCL and collective communication, and cluster scheduling bottlenecks; Create hardware-aware automation that makes provisioning, firmware and driver upgrades, incident response, and day-to-day operations faster and less error-prone; Build CaaS, agent infrastructure, profiling, observability, benchmarking, and platform tools that help researchers, product engineers, and operators launch, debug, and optimize workloads with less friction; Turn operational lessons into better systems, stronger abstractions, and clearer ownership boundaries across teams; Collaborate across research, engineering, security, networking, hardware, and data center teams to make compute capacity more capable and easier to use
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC