Senior Performance Engineer: AI Systems & Latency

OpenAI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 325,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI research organization in New York is seeking an experienced Performance Engineer to enhance performance, reliability, and efficiency across mission-critical products. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of software engineering experience, particularly in optimizing high-scale distributed systems. Responsibilities include analyzing application performance, developing observability tools, and collaborating with multiple teams to meet performance goals. This role offers the opportunity to impact core infrastructure and improve system metrics significantly.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering focused on performance and reliability.
• Strong understanding of OS internals, scheduling, memory management, and I/O patterns.
• Comfortable using performance profiling tools and tracing systems.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and optimize performance across application, middleware, and infrastructure layers.
• Develop tooling and metrics for system observability.
• Collaborate with teams to drive systemic improvements in performance.

Skills

Performance profiling tools

High-scale distributed systems

Database optimization

Network optimization

Storage performance

Python/Golang internals

Job description

A leading AI research organization in New York is seeking an experienced Performance Engineer to enhance performance, reliability, and efficiency across mission-critical products. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of software engineering experience, particularly in optimizing high-scale distributed systems. Responsibilities include analyzing application performance, developing observability tools, and collaborating with multiple teams to meet performance goals. This role offers the opportunity to impact core infrastructure and improve system metrics significantly.