Workload Porting & Performance Engineer

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 342,000 - 555,000 annuallyFunction: Product ManagementSkills: ["Problem-solving","Analytical thinking","Collaboration"]

Join OpenAI’s Infrastructure team as a Workload Porting & Performance Engineer. You’ll port benchmarks and real-world workloads to new hardware, evaluate performance across compute, memory, storage, and networking, identify bottlenecks, and optimize workloads to maximize platform readiness and deployment decisions in a hybrid SF office environment.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
3 months ago

Workload Porting & Performance Engineer

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Job Summary

Join OpenAI’s Infrastructure team as a Workload Porting & Performance Engineer. You’ll port benchmarks and real-world workloads to new hardware, evaluate performance across compute, memory, storage, and networking, identify bottlenecks, and optimize workloads to maximize platform readiness and deployment decisions in a hybrid SF office environment.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management

Key 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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 342,000 - 555,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •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:AI/MLHigh-Performance ComputingHardwareDistributed systems
Skills:Problem-solvingAnalytical thinkingCollaboration
Tech Stack:CPUGPUMemoryI/OProfiling toolsMicrobenchmarksRuntime optimizationProfilersTracing

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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