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Software Engineer

OpenAISan Francisco, United States
295000USD - 440000USDPythonShellSQLPandas
About the Role
On the Frontier Systems team, you’ll build critical infrastructure that keeps our supercomputers running reliably for cutting-edge AI research. Even a single hardware failure can derail a large-scale training run, so minimizing disruptions is core to the mission.
Engineers here own their work end-to-end and are trusted to make a real impact. This role is for someone who goes deep - who thrives on root-causing system-level issues and building automation to catch and fix problems at scale.
In this role, you will:
  • Own and improve the system health checks that keep our hyperscale supercomputers stable during model training.
  • Lead deep dives into hardware failures and system-level bugs to understand how things break at scale.
  • Build automation that monitors and fixes issues across thousands of machines - so researchers can keep moving without interruption.

You might thrive in this role if you have:
  • 7+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
  • Proficiency with Python and shell scripting.
  • A high degree of comfort digging into noisy data with SQL, PromQL, and Pandas or any other tool necessary.
  • Experience developing reproducible analyses.
  • A balance of strengths in building and operationalizing.
  • Prior hardware expertise is not required for this role.

Bonus if you have:
  • Experience with low level details of hardware components, protocols, and associated Linux tooling (e.g., PCIe, Infiniband, networking, power management, kernel perf tuning).
  • Experience with visualization of large data centers and networks.
  • Expertise with network operations and tooling.
  • Expertise with power management and stabilization.