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Software Engineer, Platform Systems

OpenAI· Scaling
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San Francisco$380k - $500kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Design and build distributed systems for visibility and reliability of large-scale AI training workloads, focusing on failure detection, tracing, and observability within OpenAI's training platform.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build distributed failure detection, tracing, and profiling systems for large-scale AI training jobs
  • Develop tooling to identify slow, faulty, or misbehaving nodes and provide actionable visibility into system behavior
  • Improve observability, reliability, and performance across OpenAI’s training platform
  • Debug and resolve issues in complex, high-throughput distributed systems
  • Collaborate with systems, infrastructure, and research teams to evolve platform capabilities
  • Extend and adapt failure detection systems or tracing systems to support new training paradigms and workloads

Qualifications

  • Care deeply about performance, stability, and observability in distributed systems
  • Enjoy finding and fixing issues in large-scale systems and automating operational workflows
  • Experience writing low-level software where system details matter
  • Understand hardware, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
  • Background in high-performance computing or low-level systems engineering
  • Excited to work on critical infrastructure that powers frontier AI research

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designFailure detection and observabilityLow-level software development

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 additional paid office closures, 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 offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching and wellness stipends)
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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