Software Engineer, Compute Foundations Systems

OpenAI · Scaling

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Metro: San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: Unspecified
Level: Unspecified
Type: Full-time
Pay: $230K–$490K/yr (published by employer)
Posted: 3 months ago
Source: Ashby

What the posting covers

About the Team

Frontier Systems Foundations, part of Compute Foundations at OpenAI, builds the systems software foundation that turns new compute infrastructure into reliable, usable capacity for frontier model training. Our mission is to make some of the world's largest…

About the Role

We are looking for systems software engineers with deep Linux and host-systems experience to build, qualify, and maintain the operating-system foundation for OpenAI's frontier compute fleet. Relevant backgrounds include kernel and module development, Linux…

In this role, you will

Build and maintain the Linux host software stack for large GPU clusters, including Ubuntu and OS images, kernel configuration and modules, drivers, packages, disks and storage configuration, and machine configuration. Design reproducible OS-image builds,…

You might thrive in this role if you

Have significant experience building, integrating, or operating production Linux systems, particularly Ubuntu, Debian, or another major Linux distribution. Have deep experience in one or more of: Linux kernels, modules, or device drivers; Linux distribution,…

Bonus points if you

Have built bare-metal provisioning, machine-bootstrap, OS-reprovisioning, or system-lifecycle tooling. Have worked with GPU systems, AI infrastructure, HPC clusters, accelerators, or other heterogeneous and performance-sensitive compute environments. Have…

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…

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