OpenAI · 11 hours ago
Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$250K/yr - $460K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Distributed Systems engineer, you will work on delivering powerful APIs for orchestrating thousands of computers, optimizing systems for performance, and deploying training frameworks to supercomputers.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Work across our Python and Rust stack
Profile and optimize and help design for scale our compute and data capabilities
Work on deploying our training framework to our latest supercomputers rapidly responding to the changing shapes and needs of the ML systems
Qualification
Required
Work across our Python and Rust stack
Profile and optimize and help design for scale our compute and data capabilities
Work on deploying our training framework to our latest supercomputers rapidly responding to the changing shapes and needs of the ML systems
Have worked on large distributed systems
Love figuring out how systems work and continuously come up with ideas for how to make them faster while minimizing complexity and maintenance burden
Have strong software engineering skills and are proficient in Python and Rust or equivalent
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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