Software Engineer, Platform Systems

The role

You will design and build distributed systems to provide visibility into large-scale training workloads. You will work on failure detection, tracing, and observability systems to help operate training workloads reliably at scale.

What you will do

• 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
• 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

Required qualifications

• Experience writing low-level software where system details matter
• Understand hardware, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems

Nice to have

• Background in high-performance computing or low-level systems engineering

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.