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Software Engineer, AI accelerator Runtime

OpenAIWorldwide
$266,000 - $445,000 a year
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📋 Description

  • Design and implement the low-level device runtime for OpenAI custom silicon.
  • Build kernel-launch scheduling, command submission, queueing, dependency tracking, and completion
  • Manage device memory spaces, allocation, virtual-to-physical mappings, data movement, and lifetime
  • Implement synchronization primitives, events, barriers, streams, and ordering guarantees that are
  • Define clean interfaces between the runtime, drivers, firmware, compiler-generated code, kernels
  • Use event-based, cycle-accurate simulators to develop, validate, debug, and performance-tune

🎯 Requirements

  • Strong low-level systems programming experience in C, C++, Rust, or comparable environments.
  • Experience building runtimes, drivers, firmware, OS components, accelerator software, or related
  • Understanding of concurrency, synchronization, asynchronous execution, queues, events, and
  • Knowledge of memory management, address spaces, DMA, caching, coherency, and hardware-software
  • Experience with event-based, cycle-accurate simulators or related architectural/performance models.
  • Ability to reason about scheduling, latency, throughput, utilization, contention, and resource

🎁 Benefits

  • OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and values diverse perspectives.
  • Compliance with applicable equal employment opportunity policies and privacy practices.

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Is the Software Engineer, AI accelerator Runtime 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, AI accelerator Runtime role?
The posted salary range for this position is $266,000 - $445,000 a year.
When was this Software Engineer, AI accelerator Runtime job posted?
This listing was posted on August 24, 2026 and is still open for applications.
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