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Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - Research

OpenAI · San Francisco

$250k - $380k/yrMid levelEngineeringScalingScalingPosted 10 months ago
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ABOUT THE TEAM The Workload team is responsible for designing and running OpenAI’s LLM training and inference infrastructure that powers frontier models at massive scale. Our systems unify how researchers train and serve models, abstracting away the complexity of performance, parallelism, and execution across vast GPU/accelerator fleets. By providing this foundation, the Workload team ensures that researchers can focus on advancing model capabilities while we handle the scale, efficiency, and reliability required to bring those models to life. ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for an engineer to design and implement the dataset infrastructure that powers OpenAI’s next-generation training stack. You will be responsible for building standardized dataset interfaces, scaling pipelines across thousands of GPUs, and proactively testing performance bottlenecks. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the multimodal researchers, and other infra groups to ensure datasets are unified, efficient, and easy to consume. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - 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, ensuring smooth adoption and a great user experience. - 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 (e.g., straggler systems slowing global training). - Provide visualization and inspection tools to surface errors, bugs, or bottlenecks in datasets. YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU: - Have strong engineering fundamentals with experience in distributed systems, data pipelines, or

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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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