Performance Modeling Engineer ~2

The role

This person will support the development and application of modeling tools to evaluate AI system performance. They will analyze system behavior, run simulations, and evaluate tradeoffs across compute, memory, networking, and storage.

What you will do

• Support the development and maintenance of performance modeling tools and frameworks
• Assist in building models to evaluate system behavior across compute, memory, networking, and interconnect subsystems
• Help analyze distributed system scaling behavior and identify performance bottlenecks
• Run simulations and analytical models to support architecture and infrastructure decisions
• Partner with senior engineers to evaluate design tradeoffs across hardware and system components
• Interpret modeling outputs and help translate findings into clear recommendations
• Validate models using benchmarking data and real system performance measurements
• Improve modeling workflows, documentation, and usability for broader team adoption
• Collaborate cross-functionally with hardware, infrastructure, and architecture teams
• Continuously build technical depth across AI infrastructure, system architecture, and performance analysis

Required qualifications

• 1–2 years of experience in software engineering, systems modeling, performance analysis, or related technical work
• Strong programming skills and experience building technical tools, scripts, or frameworks
• Familiarity with system architecture fundamentals such as compute, memory, and networking
• Ability to reason about system performance, bottlenecks, and scaling behavior
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with comfort working in quantitative environments
• Ability to learn quickly and work effectively across technical teams

Nice to have

• Exposure to AI/ML workloads, distributed systems, or large-scale infrastructure
• Experience with simulation tools, benchmarking, profiling, or performance analysis
• Familiarity with data center systems, server architecture, or hardware platforms
• Interest in system architecture and hardware/software co-design
• Internship or early professional experience in performance engineering, infrastructure, or systems design

Benefits

• relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through their products.