OpenAI

Systems R&D Engineer, Industrial Compute

OpenAI

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $310,000 - $460,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsPython

About the role

  • Work closely with the research, fleet, silicon, hardware health, and external vendors and partners to accelerate system qualification, increase deployment velocity, and improve platform and fleet robustness at scale.
  • Focus on detailed evaluation and systematic testing of early hardware, including servers, racks, NICs, switches, chips, optics, transceivers, and other lab prototype equipment.
  • Engineering work will span a broad range of software (systems, firmware, RDMA, collectives, cluster provisioning, orchestration, etc.) and/or hardware solutions (e.g., FPGA development) to manage lab infrastructure.
  • Support bring-up activities and perform extensive characterizations of new hardware through microbenchmarking, fault injection, impairment modeling, localized stress testing, and end-to-end evaluations.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Strong background in system architecture, large-scale distributed systems and AI/HPC networking expertise (high performance multipath transport protocols, RDMA, RoCE, Infiniband)
  • 5+ years of software development experience in C/C++ and Python
  • Experience developing and running large-scale distributed AI workloads
  • Hands-on lab experience with datacenter hardware (racks, servers, switches, NICs, accelerators, etc.)
  • Experience with low-level software and/or FPGA hardware development (e.g., firmware or RTL)
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 multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

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Hard skills
CC++PythonFPGA developmentfirmwareRTLmicrobenchmarkingfault injectionimpairment modelinglocalized stress testing
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
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