Tokens-as-a-Service (Taas) Software Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a Tokens-as-a-Service (TaaS) Engineer to help build the systems that convert large-scale infrastructure capacity into measurable reliable token throughput for OpenAI workloads.

In this role you will work across performance benchmarking tokenomics model porting infrastructure integration systems tooling and operational monitoring. You will help connect partner and first-party compute environments into OpenAIs infrastructure stack ensuring GPU capacity can be onboarded measured monitored and optimized against real workload outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop systems and tooling to measure monitor and improve token throughput across first-party and partner-owned compute environments.

• Support performance benchmarking tokenomics analysis and model porting across heterogeneous infrastructure environments.

• Build tooling to integrate external or partner infrastructure into OpenAIs internal compute observability and workload management systems.

• Develop and monitor operational metrics including billing usage SLAs utilization reliability and throughput.

• Identify bottlenecks across hardware networking software and workload enablement that prevent capacity from becoming productive tokens.

• Partner with compute infrastructure networking finance and operations teams to translate raw capacity into usable workload-serving capacity.

• Build dashboards automation and reporting systems that provide clear visibility into TaaS capacity performance and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience building systems tooling automation or infrastructure platforms.

• Experience working across compute infrastructure distributed systems performance engineering or production operations.

• Ability to reason about token throughput utilization benchmarking infrastructure efficiency and workload performance.

• Comfortable integrating external systems or partner environments into internal infrastructure stacks.

• Strong analytical and debugging skills across hardware networking software and operational domains.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with GPU clusters AI infrastructure performance benchmarking or workload optimization.

• Familiarity with model porting inference/training workloads token economics or compute efficiency analysis.

• Experience building monitoring systems for billing usage SLAs utilization or infrastructure reliability.

• Background in systems engineering infrastructure software observability distributed systems or platform engineering.

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.

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