Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC
Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC
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USD 325000 - 590000
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About the team
The Fleet team at OpenAI supports the computing environment that powers our cutting-edge research and product development. We oversee large-scale systems that span data centers GPUs networking and more ensuring high availability performance and efficiency. Our work enables OpenAIs models to operate seamlessly at scale supporting both internal research and external products like ChatGPT. We prioritize safety reliability and responsible AI deployment over unchecked growth.
About the role
As a software engineer on the Fleet High Performance Computing (HPC) team you will be responsible for the reliability and uptime of all of OpenAIs compute fleet. Minimizing hardware failure is key to research training progress and stable services as even a single hardware hiccup can cause significant disruptions. With increasingly large supercomputers the stakes continue to rise.
Being at the forefront of technology means that we are often the pioneers in troubleshooting these state-of-the-art systems at scale. This is a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and devise innovative solutions to maintain the health and efficiency of our supercomputing infrastructure.
Our team empowers strong engineers with a high degree of autonomy and ownership as well as ability to effect change. This role will require a keen focus on system-level comprehensive investigations and the development of automated solutions. We want people who go deep on problems investigate as thoroughly as possible and build automation for detection and remediation at scale.
In this role you will:
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.
Continuously improve automation to reduce manual work.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
Experience managing large-scale server environments.
A balance of strengths in building and operationalizing.
Proficiency in Python Go or similar languages.
Strong Linux networking and server hardware knowledge.
Comfort digging into noisy data with SQL PromQL and Pandas or any other tool.
Prior hardware expertise is not required for this role.
Bonus Skills:
Experience with low level details of hardware components protocols and associated Linux tooling (e.g. PCIe Infiniband networking power management kernel perf tuning)
Knowledge of hardware management protocols (e.g. IPMI Redfish).
High-performance computing (HPC) or distributed systems experience.
Prior experience developing managing or designing hardware.
Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana).
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose 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 non-public 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
