Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

The role

You will build and optimize reliable system software for large-scale compute systems. This involves designing and operating infrastructure across accelerators, CPUs, networking, storage, and data centers to support AI workloads.

What you will do

• 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
• Create hardware-aware automation for provisioning, firmware, driver upgrades, and incident response
• Build CaaS, agent infrastructure, profiling, observability, benchmarking, and platform tools
• Turn operational lessons into better systems and stronger abstractions
• Collaborate across research, engineering, security, networking, hardware, and data center teams

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills
• Experience building, operating, or improving production infrastructure systems
• Experience in one or more relevant areas such as distributed systems, operating systems, networking protocols, RDMA, NCCL or collective communication, storage, Kubernetes, scheduling, observability, r
• Ability to debug complex system behavior across software, hardware, networking, and workload layers
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Strong ownership
• A bias toward practical, durable solutions

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 AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them to the world through products.