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Software Engineer, Hardware Health

OpenAI· Scaling
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Engineers on the Hardware Health and Observability team at OpenAI build critical infrastructure to keep OpenAI’s largest compute clusters healthy and operational at scale, focusing on health signals, automated remediation, and scalable tooling across GPUs, CPUs, networking, and platform infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain health signals across GPUs, CPUs, networking, and platform infrastructure.
  • Build and evolve health checks that detect, remediate, and verify failures at scale.
  • Ensure critical health checks execute with minimal latency to maximize workload uptime.
  • Investigate hardware failures and system-level issues across large-scale compute environments.
  • Own node lifecycle workflows including drain, quarantine, repair, RMA, and return-to-service processes.
  • Build automation and tooling that enables global cluster management with minimal manual intervention.
  • Partner with workload, reliability, and provider teams to integrate health signals into training and inference systems.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of industry experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong proficiency with Python and shell scripting.
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
  • Comfort digging into noisy operational data using SQL, PromQL, or similar tooling.
  • Experience building reproducible analyses and operational tooling.
  • Strong systems debugging and operational instincts with an ownership mindset.

Skills

Required:PythonShell scriptingDistributed systems

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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