Software Engineer, Frontier Clusters Infrastructure

About the Team

The Frontier Clusters team at OpenAI builds, launches, and supports the largest supercomputers in the world that OpenAI uses for its most cutting edge model training.

We take data center designs, turn them into real, working systems and build any software needed for running large-scale frontier model trainings.

Our mission is to bring up, stabilize and keep these hyperscale supercomputers reliable and efficient during the training of the frontier models.

About the Role

You will design, build, bringup and operate large-scale compute clusters to power our advanced AI research.

You will write software that orchestrates the largest clusters in the world, manages resource allocation and automates cluster lifecycle operations. You will work on bringup, operations and maintenance of all aspects of these clusters.

We’re looking for distributed systems engineers with experience in managing large-scale compute environments, high-performance clusters, or similar hyperscale infrastructure.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and optimize high-performance cluster systems to support compute-intensive AI workloads

• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our cluster infrastructure

• Interface with researchers and engineering teams to understand compute needs and optimize resource allocation

• Implement and uphold security measures for all cluster systems

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have a strong understanding of distributed systems principles with a proven track record in designing scalable, reliable, and secure compute clusters

• Possess strong programming skills, with experience in Python, Go, or similar languages

• Have experience working in public cloud environments (especially Azure)

• Are familiar with high-performance computing, GPU workloads, or AI/ML compute patterns

• Enjoy taking initiative and are comfortable building in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$255K – $490K + Offers Equity