Software Engineer, Fleet Hardware Health

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 230,000 - 490,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Python","Go","SQL","PromQL","Pandas","Linux","Networking","Server hardware","PCIe","Infiniband","Kernel perf tuning","IPMI","Grafana","Prometheus"]

Software engineer on the OpenAI Fleet Hardware team focused on ensuring reliability and uptime of OpenAI’s compute fleet. You will build automation for provisioning and managing server fleets, monitor health and performance, and collaborate across clusters, networking, and infrastructure to reduce hardware failures and bottlenecks, enabling large-scale research and product deployment with safe, automated remediation at scale.

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1 year ago

Software Engineer, Fleet Hardware Health

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Job Summary

Software engineer on the OpenAI Fleet Hardware team focused on ensuring reliability and uptime of OpenAI’s compute fleet. You will build automation for provisioning and managing server fleets, monitor health and performance, and collaborate across clusters, networking, and infrastructure to reduce hardware failures and bottlenecks, enabling large-scale research and product deployment with safe, automated remediation at scale.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and maintain automation systems for provisioning and managing server fleets.
  • •Develop tools to monitor server health, performance, and lifecycle events.
  • •Collaborate with clusters, networking, and infrastructure teams.
  • •Partner with external operators to ensure a high level of quality.
  • •Identify and fix performance bottlenecks and inefficiencies.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 230,000 - 490,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages.
  • •Strong Linux, networking, and server hardware knowledge.
  • •Experience managing large-scale server environments.
  • •Comfort digging into noisy data with SQL, PromQL, and Pandas or similar tools.
  • •Ability to build and operate automation for provisioning and managing server fleets
Experience:Distributed systemsCloudOpenAIAI infrastructure
Skills:PythonGoSQLPromQLPandasLinuxNetworkingServer hardwarePCIeInfinibandKernel perf tuningIPMIGrafanaPrometheus
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonGoSQLPromQLPandasLinuxNetworkingPrometheusGrafanaPCIeIPMIRedfish

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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Glassdoor: 4.4
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