Workload Porting & Performance Engineer (AI/ML)

OpenAI; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Workload Porting & Performance Engineer to evaluate new hardware platforms by porting benchmarks and real-world workloads, analyzing performance, and identifying system bottlenecks.

You will bring up workloads on new systems, characterize performance and adapt workloads to better utilize hardware capabilities. The role validates platforms and ensures performance aligns with expectations across compute, memory, and networking subsystems.

Qualifications

• Experience with performance analysis, benchmarking, or workload optimization.
• Strong understanding of system architecture, including CPU/GPU, memory, and I/O subsystems.
• Experience porting or adapting workloads across different hardware platforms.
• Familiarity with profiling tools and performance debugging techniques.
• Ability to identify root causes of performance issues across hardware/software boundaries.
• Experience working in large-scale or distributed system environments.

Responsibilities

• Port and enable benchmarks and real-world workloads on new hardware platforms.
• Evaluate system performance across compute, memory, storage, and networking subsystems.
• Identify and analyze performance bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
• Adapt and optimize workloads to better utilize hardware capabilities.
• Develop and run performance experiments and profiling workflows.
• Compare expected vs. observed performance and provide feedback to hardware architecture teams, performance modeling teams, and system and software engineers.
• Debug issues across the stack, including software, runtime, and hardware interactions.
• Provide actionable insights to guide platform readiness and deployment decisions.

Skills

Performance analysis

Benchmarking

Workload optimization

System architecture

CPU/GPU architecture

Profiling tools

Root-cause analysis

Distributed systems

Tools

Profilers

Tracing tools

Microbenchmarks

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Workload Porting & Performance Engineer to evaluate new hardware platforms by porting benchmarks and real-world workloads, analyzing performance, and identifying system bottlenecks.

You will bring up workloads on new systems, characterize performance and adapt workloads to better utilize hardware capabilities. The role validates platforms and ensures performance aligns with expectations across compute, memory, and networking subsystems.