OpenAI
ChatGPT Performance Engineer
$347K–$445K
San Francisco +3 · Full-time · Posted Apr 15, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City
Seattle
US - Remote - Experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Optimizes performance, reliability, and efficiency across OpenAI’s systems powering ChatGPT and the developer API.
What you'll do
- Analyze and improve performance across application, middleware, runtime, and infrastructure layers; build observability tooling and metrics.
- Partner with infrastructure, platform, training, and product teams to set performance goals and influence architecture.
- Investigate production regressions and scalability issues; develop performance testing strategies and help define latency and throughput SLAs/SLOs.
What they ask for
- Strong track record in performance or reliability of high-scale distributed systems.
- Comfort with performance profiling tools and tracing systems.
- Experience optimizing at least one system layer, such as databases, networking, storage, application runtimes, or GPU utilization.
- Strong understanding of operating-system internals, scheduling, memory management, and I/O patterns.
Nice to have
- Contributions to observability, benchmarking, or performance-focused infrastructure at scale.
- Demonstrated success navigating ambiguity and aligning stakeholders around performance goals.
Pay
$347K – $445K USD base salary
Tools
Python, Golang, GPU
AI focus
Applies performance engineering to systems powering AI products, including model training infrastructure and real-time user experiences.
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