OpenAI
Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC
$230K–$490K
San Francisco +1 · Full-time · Posted Feb 5, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City - Experience
- Experience managing large-scale server environments; no years specified.
About the job
Build and operate automation and monitoring systems that keep OpenAI’s large-scale compute fleet reliable, performant, and available.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain server-fleet provisioning and management automation; reduce manual work through continuous improvement.
- Develop tools to monitor server health, performance, and lifecycle events, and investigate and fix bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with cluster, networking, and infrastructure teams and external operators to maintain quality.
What they ask for
- Experience managing large-scale server environments.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Strong Linux, networking, and server hardware knowledge.
- Comfort analyzing noisy data with SQL, PromQL, and Pandas or other tools.
Nice to have
- Low-level hardware, protocol, and Linux tooling knowledge, such as PCIe, Infiniband, IPMI, or Redfish.
- HPC or distributed systems experience; familiarity with Prometheus or Grafana is also a bonus.
Pay
$230K – $490K USD base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Linux, SQL, PromQL, Pandas, Prometheus, Grafana
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