Platform Systems Engineer – Observability & Scale

OpenAI

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 310,000 - 460,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

A leading AI research organization is looking for a Software Engineer for their Platform Systems team in San Francisco. You will design and build systems for large-scale AI training workloads, focusing on reliability and performance. Ideal candidates should have a deep understanding of distributed systems, experience in debugging complex systems, and a passion for AI applications. The compensation range is competitive, from $310K to $460K annually.

Qualifications

  • Experience in writing low-level software where system details matter.
  • Understanding of hardware, operating systems, networking, and concurrency.
  • Background in high-performance computing or systems engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build distributed failure detection and tracing systems.
  • Develop tooling for identifying performance issues in training jobs.
  • Collaborate with teams to evolve platform capabilities.

Skills

Performance analysis
Distributed systems
Debugging
Low-level software

Job description

A leading AI research organization is looking for a Software Engineer for their Platform Systems team in San Francisco. You will design and build systems for large-scale AI training workloads, focusing on reliability and performance. Ideal candidates should have a deep understanding of distributed systems, experience in debugging complex systems, and a passion for AI applications. The compensation range is competitive, from $310K to $460K annually.
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