Training - Runtime Foundations Engineer

The role

You will work on software that ties thousands of computers together as a unified system. You will design, build, and maintain software to orchestrate and monitor machine learning workloads on large supercomputers using Python and Rust.

What you will do

• Work across our Python and Rust stack
• Design, build, and maintain software to orchestrate and monitor machine learning workloads on our largest supercomputers
• Profile and optimize our software stack to support computation orchestration at frontier scale
• Improve reliability, observability, and fault tolerance for long-running jobs
• Debug complex distributed systems issues across large clusters
• Respond to the changing shapes and needs of the ML systems to enable our researchers

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills
• Proficient in Rust or another systems programming language (e.g. C++)
• Solid Linux knowledge
• Comfortable with systems-level debugging, performance analysis, and memory profiling
• Comfortable and experienced in developing asynchronous and concurrent systems

Nice to have

• Experience developing distributed systems
• Enjoy understanding how large systems behave and fail at scale
• Love being both a developer and an operator
• Care deeply about performance, correctness, and reliability
• Like high-ownership environments with light process and strong engineering agency

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.