OpenAI

Data Engineer

OpenAI$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience as a data engineer
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficiency in a programming language like Python, Scala, or Java
  • Experience with distributed processing technologies like Hadoop or Flink
  • Familiarity with ETL schedulers such as Airflow or Prefect
  • Strong understanding of Spark and experience in writing and optimizing Spark code

Responsibilities

  • Design and build data pipelines for seamless data integration
  • Develop datasets to track product metrics like user growth and engagement
  • Collaborate with teams including Product, Marketing, and Research
  • Implement fault-tolerant data ingestion and processing systems
  • Participate in data architecture and engineering decision-making
  • Ensure data security, integrity, and compliance standards are met

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance for new employees
  • Opportunity to collaborate with AI researchers
  • Impactful role in shaping data-driven business decisions
  • Work in a fast-growing, innovative company environment
Full Job Description
About the role:

We're seeking a Data Engineer to take the lead in building our data pipelines and core tables for OpenAI. These pipelines are crucial for powering analyses, safety systems that guide business decisions, product growth, and prevent bad actors. If you're passionate about working with data and are eager to create solutions with significant impact, we'd love to hear from you. This role also provides the opportunity to collaborate closely with the researchers behind ChatGPT and help them train new models to deliver to users. As we continue our rapid growth, we value data-driven insights, and your contributions will play a pivotal role in our trajectory. Join us in shaping the future of OpenAI!

In this role, you will:
  • Design, build and manage our data pipelines, ensuring all user event data is seamlessly integrated into our data warehouse.
  • Develop canonical datasets to track key product metrics including user growth, engagement, and revenue.
  • Work collaboratively with various teams, including, Infrastructure, Data Science, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Research to understand their data needs and provide solutions.
  • Implement robust and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion and processing.
  • Participate in data architecture and engineering decisions, bringing your strong experience and knowledge to bear.
  • Ensure the security, integrity, and compliance of data according to industry and company standards.

You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have 3+ years of experience as a data engineer and 8+ years of any software engineering experience(including data engineering).
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used within Data Engineering, such as Python, Scala, or Java.
  • Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Hadoop, Flink and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3).
  • Expertise with any of ETL schedulers such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect or similar frameworks.
  • Solid understanding of Spark and ability to write, debug and optimize Spark code.

This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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Size
100 employees
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Founded
2015

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