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ChatGPT Performance Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco

$325k - $405k/yrRemoteMid levelEngineeringApplied AIApplied AI EngineeringPosted 14 months ago
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ABOUT THE TEAM We bring OpenAI's technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. ABOUT THE ROLE OpenAI is looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to help us scale the performance, reliability, and efficiency of our systems. In this role, you'll apply deep technical expertise to optimize infrastructure and application-level performance across mission-critical products like ChatGPT and our developer API. You’ll work cross-functionally with teams building core services, training models, and developing real-time user experiences to push our latency, throughput, and cost-efficiency to the next level. We are looking for engineers who thrive in ambiguous environments, value deep systems understanding, and are motivated by delivering measurable impact. This is a highly technical, individual contributor role focused on root-cause analysis, profiling, instrumentation, and architecture-level performance improvements across our stack. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - Analyze and optimize performance across application, middleware, runtime, and infrastructure layers - networking, storage, Python runtime, GPU utilization, and beyond. - Develop tooling and metrics that provide deep observability into system performance. - Collaborate closely with infra, platform, training, and product teams to identify key performance goals and drive systemic improvements. - Influence architecture and design decisions to prioritize latency, throughput, and efficiency at scale. - Lead investigations into high-impact performance regressions or scalability issues in production. - Drive performance testing strategies and help define SLAs/SLOs around latency and throughput for critical systems. YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU: - Have 7+ years of experience in software engineering

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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