OpenAI · 2 weeks ago
Product Performance Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$325K/yr - $405K/yr
7+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking an experienced Performance Engineer to optimize the performance, reliability, and efficiency of their systems, particularly for products like ChatGPT and their developer API.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Analyze and optimize performance across application, middleware, runtime, and infrastructure layers—networking, storage, Python runtime, GPU utilization, and beyond
Develop tooling and metrics that provide deep observability into system performance
Collaborate closely with infra, platform, training, and product teams to identify key performance goals and drive systemic improvements
Influence architecture and design decisions to prioritize latency, throughput, and efficiency at scale
Lead investigations into high-impact performance regressions or scalability issues in production
Drive performance testing strategies and help define SLAs/SLOs around latency and throughput for critical systems
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong track record in performance or reliability of high-scale distributed systems
Deeply comfortable with performance profiling tools and tracing systems
Experience optimizing performance across one or more layers of the stack (e.g., database, networking, storage, application runtime, GC tuning, Python/Golang internals, GPU utilization)
Strong understanding of OS internals, scheduling, memory management, and IO patterns
Contributed to observability, benchmarking, or performance-focused infrastructure at scale
Demonstrated success navigating ambiguity and aligning stakeholders around performance goals
Value simplicity, rigor, and collaboration when solving complex systems problems
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.
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
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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