Software Engineer, Hardware Health

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 250,000 - 445,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Leadership","Collaboration","Analytical"]

The Frontier Systems team builds and maintains hyperscale supercomputers used for cutting-edge AI model training. You will own end-to-end system health checks, investigate deep hardware and system-level issues, and build automation to monitor and fix issues across thousands of machines, enabling researchers to train models with minimal disruption.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
1 year ago

Software Engineer, Hardware Health

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Job Summary

The Frontier Systems team builds and maintains hyperscale supercomputers used for cutting-edge AI model training. You will own end-to-end system health checks, investigate deep hardware and system-level issues, and build automation to monitor and fix issues across thousands of machines, enabling researchers to train models with minimal disruption.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • ā€¢Own and improve the system health checks that keep our hyperscale supercomputers stable during model training.
  • ā€¢Lead deep dives into hardware failures and system-level bugs to understand how things break at scale.
  • ā€¢Build automation that monitors and fixes issues across thousands of machines - so researchers can keep moving without interruption.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 445,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • ā€¢7+ years of industry experience in software engineering
  • ā€¢Proficiency with Python and shell scripting
  • ā€¢A high degree of comfort digging into noisy data with SQL, PromQL, and Pandas or any other tool necessary
  • ā€¢Experience developing reproducible analyses
  • ā€¢A balance of strengths in building and operationalizing
Experience:7+ yearsAI infrastructureHigh performance computingData center
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationLeadershipCollaborationAnalytical
Tech Stack:PythonShellSQLPromQLPandasLinuxPCIeInfinibandNetworkingKernel perf tuning

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALLĀ·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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