OpenAI
Software Engineer, Platform Systems
$380K–$500K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Jan 23, 2026
About the job
Build and operate distributed systems that provide failure detection, tracing, profiling, and observability for large-scale AI training workloads.
What you'll do
- Design and build failure detection, tracing, and profiling systems for large-scale training jobs.
- Develop tools to identify slow or faulty nodes and improve visibility, reliability, and performance.
- Debug distributed systems and collaborate with systems, infrastructure, and research teams on platform capabilities.
What they ask for
- Experience writing low-level software where system details matter.
- Understanding of hardware, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems.
Nice to have
- Background in high-performance computing or low-level systems engineering.
Pay
$380K – $500K USD base salary
AI focus
Develop infrastructure for operating and optimizing large-scale AI model training.
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