Software Engineer, AI accelerator Runtime
OpenAIWorldwide
$266,000 - $445,000 a year
📋 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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FAQ
- 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.
- How do I apply for the Software Engineer, AI accelerator Runtime position at OpenAI?
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