Software Engineer, Fleet Infrastructure

Details

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate components of our compute fleet including job scheduling, cluster management, snapshot delivery, and CI/CD systems.
• Interface with researchers and product teams to understand workload requirements.
• Collaborate with hardware, infrastructure, and business teams to provide a high utilization and high reliability service.

In this role, you will design, write, deploy, and operate infrastructure systems for model deployment and training on one of the world’s largest GPU fleet. The scale is immense, the timelines are tight, and the organization is moving fast.

The fleet team focuses on running the world’s largest, most reliable, and frictionless GPU fleet to support OpenAI's general purpose model training and deployment, including:

• Maximizing GPUs doing useful work by building user-friendly scheduling and quota systems
• Running a reliable and low maintenance platform by building push-button automation for kubernetes cluster provisioning and upgrades
• Supporting research workflows with service frameworks and deployment systems
• Ensuring fast model startup times though high performance snapshot delivery across blob storage down to hardware caching

Requirements

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience with hyperscale compute systems
• Possess strong programming skills
• Have experience working in public clouds (especially Azure)
• Have experience working in Kubernetes
• Execution focused mentality paired with a rigorous focus on user requirements
• As a bonus, have an understanding of AI/ML workloads

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 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 multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided

Relocation support is mentioned for eligible employees.

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws.