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TL, Research Inference

OpenAI · San Francisco

$380k - $555k/yrScience and researchResearchFoundationsPosted 4 months ago
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ABOUT THE TEAM The Foundations team focuses on how model behavior changes as we scale models, data, and compute. The team studies the interactions between model architecture, optimization, and training data, and uses those insights to guide how new models are designed and trained. ABOUT THE ROLE In this role, you will build the systems that enable advanced AI models to run efficiently at scale. You will operate at the intersection of model research and systems engineering, translating new architectural ideas into high-performance inference systems that surface real tradeoffs in performance, memory, and scalability. Your work will directly influence how models are designed, evaluated, and iterated on across the research organization. By developing and evolving high-performance inference infrastructure, you will enable researchers to explore new ideas with a clear understanding of their computational and systems implications. This is not a product-serving role. Instead, it is a research-enabling systems role focused on performance, correctness, and realism - ensuring that AI research is grounded in what can actually scale. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - Design and build high-performance inference runtimes for large-scale AI models, with a focus on efficiency, reliability, and scalability. - Own and optimize core execution paths, including model execution, memory management, batching, and scheduling. - Develop and improve distributed inference across multiple GPUs, including parallelism strategies, communication patterns, and runtime coordination. - Implement and optimize inference-critical operators and kernels informed by real-world workloads. - Partner closely with research teams to ensure new model architectures are supported accurately and efficiently in inference systems. - Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks through profiling, benchmarking, and low-level debugging. - Contribute to observability, correctness, and reliability of large-scale AI systems. YOU MIG

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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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