Engineering Manager, Networking
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 460 - 555
Posted on:
17 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the Team
The Platform Networking team is responsible for the collective communication stack used in our largest training jobs. Using a combination of C and CUDA we work on novel collective communication techniques that enable efficient training of our flagship models on our largest custom built supercomputers.
The models we train are key ingredients to the AI research progress at OpenAI and the field as a whole and we continually incorporate learnings from our entire research org into our training platform.
About the Role
As an Engineering Manager Networking you will lead a world-class team focused on building and optimizing the performance-critical systems that power OpenAIs largest training runs.
Were looking for someone with a strong technical background in low-level systems work who is excited to step into a full-time management role.
This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role you will:
Manage a highly senior team that develops the communication and systems software behind OpenAIs largest training workloads.
Collaborate closely with ML research and infrastructure teams to ensure system priorities align with evolving model needs.
Grow and support engineers on your team through mentorship project alignment and performance development.Prioritize across projects and maintain visibility into incoming research demands to keep critical training infrastructure ahead of bottlenecks.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Are an experienced leader
Have experience with low-level systems engineering such as CPU/GPU kernels RDMA high-performance networking or HPC.
Are excited to manage a deeply technical team and guide systems work that directly enables AI research at massive scale.
Enjoy working closely with other high-context teams across research and infrastructure to solve complex cross-cutting problems.
NCCL (NVIDIA Collective Communications Library) or collectives experience.
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.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act for US-based candidates. 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 addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems. Building safe and beneficial AGI is our mission.
