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Software Engineer, Platform Systems

OpenAI· Scaling
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London, UKFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Role focused on designing and building distributed systems to provide visibility into large-scale AI training workloads, with emphasis on failure detection, tracing, observability, and reliability across 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
Last updated Jul 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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