Software Engineer

OpenAISan Francisco, United Stateslast year

US295000USD - 440000USD

About the Role

On the Frontier Systems team, you’ll build critical infrastructure that keeps our supercomputers running reliably for cutting-edge AI research. Even a single hardware failure can derail a large-scale training run, so minimizing disruptions is core to the mission.

Engineers here own their work end-to-end and are trusted to make a real impact. This role is for someone who goes deep - who thrives on root-causing system-level issues and building automation to catch and fix problems at scale.

In this role, you will:

Own and improve the system health checks that keep our hyperscale supercomputers stable during model training.
Lead deep dives into hardware failures and system-level bugs to understand how things break at scale.
Build automation that monitors and fixes issues across thousands of machines - so researchers can keep moving without interruption.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

7+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
Proficiency with Python and shell scripting.
A high degree of comfort digging into noisy data with SQL, PromQL, and Pandas or any other tool necessary.
Experience developing reproducible analyses.
A balance of strengths in building and operationalizing.
Prior hardware expertise is not required for this role.

Bonus if you have:

Experience with low level details of hardware components, protocols, and associated Linux tooling (e.g., PCIe, Infiniband, networking, power management, kernel perf tuning).
Experience with visualization of large data centers and networks.
Expertise with network operations and tooling.
Expertise with power management and stabilization.

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Is the Software Engineer position at OpenAI remote?: Yes. This role was posted on Remote Backend Jobs, a job board that lists exclusively fully remote positions.
What is the salary for the Software Engineer role?: The posted salary range for this position is 295000USD - 440000USD.
When was this Software Engineer job posted?: This listing was posted on May 14, 2025 and is still open for applications.
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