Networking Architect â Optics
Networking Architect â Optics
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USD 360000 - 530000
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About the Team
OpenAIs Infrastructure team is building the worlds most advanced AI supercomputing platform. This team sits at the intersection of hardware systems network architecture and data center strategy. We are responsible for the design deployment and optimization of hyperscale systems that power cuttingedge AI models. As we scale our infrastructure globally we are investing deeply in nextgeneration optical networking to deliver highthroughput energyefficient and reliable systems.
About the Role
We are seeking a Networking Architect with deep expertise in optics to help define the future of OpenAIs networking systems. This person will play a central role in shaping how optics are integrated across our silicon racks switches and systems at hyperscale. Youll work closely with hardware engineers system architects and external partners to evaluate technologies define product specifications and guide endtoend system design.
This role requires both a detailed understanding of the optical technology stackfrom pluggables to copackaged opticsand the ability to evaluate systemlevel tradeoffs across reliability energy efficiency and cost.
In this role you will:
Lead OpenAIs strategy and roadmap for optics and photonics across all layers of the network stack.
Evaluate emerging technologies including copackaged optics nearpackage optics lowpower optics (LPO) pluggables and discrete solutions for use in NICs accelerators switches and interconnects.
Architect systems for high reliability taking into account failure modes such as link flaps component aging and environmental sensitivities.
Specify switches transceivers and optical components for OpenAI deployments across multiple data center environments and geographies.
Interface with vendors researchers and internal stakeholders to assess technology readiness and drive component and systemlevel evaluations.
Develop lead and execute on internal testing strategies to qualify optics in production environments including CWDM and DWDM systems.
Contribute to crossfunctional architectural efforts involving custom silicon highperformance interconnects and globalscale networks.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
10 years of experience in optical networking or photonic systems architecture including handson involvement with system design.
Expertise in the tradeoffs of power cost reliability and density in largescale optical deployments.
Familiarity with specifying and integrating optics into hyperscale data center environments.
Deep knowledge of the current and emerging optics ecosystem including key players standards and supply chains.
Handson experience with lab testing and evaluation of components and systems.
Experience working in small highownership engineering teams that operate across hardware and systems boundaries.
Strong communication and technical leadership skills with a collaborative pragmatic approach.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that generalpurpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information please see OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary confidential and nonpublic information. In addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
