Software Engineer, Platform Systems

OpenAI
London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: []

Join OpenAI’s Platform Systems to design and build distributed infrastructure for large-scale AI training. You’ll create failure detection, tracing, and observability tools, identify slow or faulty nodes, and optimize performance across a high-throughput training platform, collaborating with systems, infrastructure, and research teams to evolve capabilities and support frontier workloads.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
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Software Engineer, Platform Systems

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Job Summary

Join OpenAI’s Platform Systems to design and build distributed infrastructure for large-scale AI training. You’ll create failure detection, tracing, and observability tools, identify slow or faulty nodes, and optimize performance across a high-throughput training platform, collaborating with systems, infrastructure, and research teams to evolve capabilities and support frontier workloads.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key 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

Key Requirements

  • •Have experience writing low-level software where system details matter
  • •Understand hardware, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
  • •Have a background in high-performance computing or low-level systems engineering
  • •Care deeply about performance, stability, and observability in distributed systems
  • •Enjoy finding and fixing issues in large-scale systems and automating operational workflows
Experience:Distributed systemsHigh-performance computingAI training

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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