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Workload Porting & Performance Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco

$293k - $385k/yrRemoteMid levelEngineeringScalingComputePosted 3 months ago
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About the Team OpenAI’s Infrastructure organization builds and evaluates the systems that power advanced AI workloads. We work closely with hardware, modeling, and architecture teams to ensure that new platforms deliver real-world performance aligned with workload needs. Our team focuses on understanding workload behavior across evolving hardware platforms - bridging the gap between theoretical capability and observed system performance. About the Role We are seeking a Workload Porting & Performance Engineer to evaluate new hardware platforms by porting benchmarks and real-world workloads, analyzing performance, and identifying system bottlenecks. In this role, you will bring up workloads on new systems, characterize performance behavior, and adapt workloads to better utilize hardware capabilities. You will play a critical role in validating new platforms and ensuring that performance aligns with expectations across compute, memory, and networking subsystems. This role requires strong hands-on experience with performance analysis, workload optimization, and system-level debugging across hardware and software boundaries. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance. Key Responsibilities - Port and enable benchmarks and real-world workloads on new hardware platforms. - Evaluate system performance across compute, memory, storage, and networking subsystems. - Identify and analyze performance bottlenecks and inefficiencies. - Adapt and optimize workloads to better utilize hardware capabilities. - Develop and run performance experiments and profiling workflows. - Compare expected vs. observed performance and provide feedback to: - hardware architecture teams - performance modeling teams - system and software engineers. - Debug issues across the stack, including software, runtime, and hardware interactions. - Provide actionable insights to guide platform readiness and deployment decisio

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System ArchitectureDistributed SystemsArtificial Intelligence

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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