Software Engineer, Fleet Infrastructure Job at OpenAI (San Francisco)

Software Engineer, Fleet Hardware Health

As a software engineer on the Fleet Hardware team, you will be responsible for t...

Location

United States , San Francisco

Salary:

230000.00 - 490000.00 USD / Year

OpenAI

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

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

Job Responsibility

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

What we offer

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

Fulltime

Software Engineer, Fleet Management

The Fleet team at OpenAI supports the computing environment that powers our cutt...

Location

United States , San Francisco

Salary:

230000.00 - 490000.00 USD / Year

OpenAI

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Strong software engineering skills with experience in large-scale infrastructure environments
Broad knowledge of cluster-level systems (e.g., Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, cloud providers)
Deep expertise in server-level systems (e.g., systems, containerization, Chef, Linux kernels, firmware management, host routing)
Passionate about optimizing the performance and reliability of large compute fleets
Thrive in dynamic environments and are eager to solve complex infrastructure challenges
Value automation, efficiency, and continuous improvement in everything you build

Job Responsibility

Design and build systems to manage both cloud and bare-metal fleets at scale
Develop tools that integrate low-level hardware metrics with high-level job scheduling and cluster management algorithms
Leverage LLMs to coordinate vendor operations and optimize infrastructure workflows
Automate infrastructure processes, reducing repetitive toil and improving system reliability
Collaborate with hardware, infrastructure, and research teams to ensure seamless integration across the stack
Continuously improve tools, automation, processes, and documentation to enhance operational efficiency

What we offer

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

Fulltime

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - Research

The Workload team is responsible for designing and running OpenAI’s LLM training...

Location

United States , San Francisco

Salary:

250000.00 - 380000.00 USD / Year

OpenAI

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Strong engineering fundamentals with experience in distributed systems, data pipelines, or infrastructure
Experience building APIs, modular code, and scalable abstractions
Comfortable debugging bottlenecks across large fleets of machines
Pride in building infrastructure that 'just works'
Collaborative, humble, and excited to own a foundational part of the ML stack

Job Responsibility

Design and implement the dataset infrastructure that powers OpenAI’s next-generation training stack
Design and maintain standardized dataset APIs, including for multimodal (MM) data that cannot fit in memory
Build proactive testing and scale validation pipelines for dataset loading at GPU scale
Collaborate with teammates to integrate datasets seamlessly into training and inference pipelines
Document and maintain dataset interfaces so they are discoverable, consistent, and easy for other teams to adopt
Establish safeguards and validation systems to ensure datasets remain reproducible and unchanged once standardized
Debug and resolve performance bottlenecks in distributed dataset loading
Provide visualization and inspection tools to surface errors, bugs, or bottlenecks in datasets

What we offer

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

Fulltime

Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC

As a software engineer on the Fleet High Performance Computing (HPC) team, you w...

Location

United States , San Francisco

Salary:

230000.00 - 490000.00 USD / Year

OpenAI

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

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

Job Responsibility

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

What we offer

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

Fulltime

Software Engineer, Big Data Infrastructure

Benchling's mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world's most in...

Location

United States , San Francisco

Salary:

141104.00 - 190906.00 USD / Year

Benchling

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Have 2+ years of experience or a proven track record in software engineering
Strong experience in backend engineering and distributed systems
Strong experience with scripting language (such as Python)
Experience with deployment and configuration management frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef and container management systems such as Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
Driven by creating positive impact for our customers and Benchling's business, and ultimately accelerating the pace of research in the Life Sciences
Comfortable with complexity in the short term but can build towards simplicity in the long term
Strong communicator with both words and data - you understand what it takes to go from raw data to something a human understands
Willing to work onsite in our SF office 3 days a week

Job Responsibility

Build next generation Data Platform with scalable data ingress/egress for internal and external customers
Define and design data transformations and pipelines for cross-functional datasets, while ensuring that data integrity and data privacy are first-class concerns regarded proactively, instead of reactively
Define the right Service Level Objectives for the batch & streaming pipelines, and optimize their performance
Designing and creating CI/CD pipelines for platform provisioning, full lifecycle management. Building the platform control panel to operate the fleet of systems efficiently
Work closely with the team across Application and Platform to establish best practices around usage of our data platform

What we offer

Competitive total rewards package
Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
Four months of fully paid parental leave
401(k) + Employer Match
Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
Monthly Wellness stipend
Learning and development stipend
Generous and flexible vacation

Fulltime

Software Engineer, HW/SW Co-Design Engineer

As a key member of the team you'll work closely with internal software and platf...

Location

United States , Menlo Park

Salary:

217000.00 USD / Year ▼