Drimva

OpenAI

Software Engineer, Collective Communication

$380K–$500K

San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Apr 20, 2024

About the job

Designs and implements custom collective communication operations integrated with OpenAI’s training stack and supercomputer networks.

What you'll do

  • Collaborate with ML researchers to design and implement efficient collective operations in C++ and CUDA.
  • Ensure large training jobs use the different network transports effectively.
  • Run simulations to inform future supercomputer network designs.

What they ask for

  • Background in low-level, performance-critical software.
  • Comfort writing performance-sensitive CPU and/or GPU code.

Nice to have

  • Experience with collective communication.
  • Prior distributed algorithms using RDMA or familiarity with network simulation techniques.

Pay

$380K – $500K USD base salary

Tools

C++, CUDA, RDMA

AI focus

Builds networking and collective communication infrastructure for large-scale model training.

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