Software Engineer, Compute - Storage

Details

Storage Infrastructure provides APIs for data access, placement, and lifecycle management, while ensuring that the storage systems' capacity, throughput, and IOPs satisfy the needs of AI researchers. Scalability, reliability, security, and usability are the core concerns of the team.

About the Role

As an engineer on the Storage Infrastructure team, you will design, build, and operate exascale systems to scalably and reliably manage research data across multiple regions. The team seeks distributed systems engineers with experience in exascale data management systems or distributed filesystems.

Compensation: $380,000 - $460,000 per year (offers equity)

Responsibilities

• Develop software to manage exascale data and make it accessible to researchers
• Drive the reliability, predictability, and cost effectiveness of storage systems
• Interface with researchers to understand and accommodate data use-cases
• Ensure the security of critical datasets

Requirements

• Deep understanding of distributed systems principles and proven experience designing and building scalable, reliable, and secure storage solutions
• Experience with exascale data management systems or distributed filesystems
• Strong programming skills
• Experience working in public clouds, especially Azure
• Familiarity with AI/ML data access patterns
• Bias for action and comfort building in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Team & Locations

Teams: Scaling, Workload, Runtime

Primary location: San Francisco, United States

Secondary location: London, United Kingdom

Workplace type: Hybrid

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them through our products. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.