OpenAI

Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Architecture

OpenAI$295K — $380K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in software engineering, ideally with ML systems.
  • Strong understanding of training frameworks and distributed systems.
  • Proficient in debugging complex issues across various infrastructures.
  • Ability to read and understand unfamiliar codebases quickly.
  • Proven track record of delivering high-quality code with speed and reliability.
  • Strong practical judgment with a low-ego approach to collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Review, enhance, and maintain code quality across training frameworks.
  • Identify and address potential risks in code before implementation.
  • Debug and resolve issues across ML training systems and associated infrastructure.
  • Assist researchers and engineers in overcoming obstacles with training jobs.
  • Enhance the reliability and usability of the robotics training framework.
  • Tackle practical engineering challenges that impact team productivity.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance for new hires.
  • In-office work environment in San Francisco, CA.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Infrastructure, you will be a deeply hands-on engineering force multiplier for the robotics team. You will help keep the training framework and surrounding infrastructure healthy, review and improve code quickly, debug failures across ML systems and infrastructure, and unblock researchers and engineers when the path from idea to working training job gets rough.

We're looking for people who love writing, reading, reviewing, and fixing code; who can get productive quickly in unfamiliar systems; and who bring strong practical judgment without a lot of ego or process overhead.

This role will be based in San Francisco, CA and be expected in office 5 days per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:
  • Review, improve, and clean up code across training frameworks and adjacent infrastructure.
  • Identify risky or low-quality changes before they land, and raise the code quality bar without slowing the team down.
  • Debug issues across ML training systems, GPUs, clusters, networking, and related infrastructure.
  • Help researchers and engineers unblock broken training jobs, flaky workflows, and brittle internal tooling.
  • Improve the reliability, maintainability, and usability of the robotics team's training framework.
  • Move quickly on practical engineering problems that directly affect team velocity.

You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have strong software engineering fundamentals and excellent code review judgment.
  • Have experience with ML systems, training frameworks, GPUs, distributed systems, infrastructure, or similarly complex technical environments.
  • Read and debug unfamiliar codebases quickly, and enjoy getting to root cause.
  • Ship high-quality code with strong velocity and pragmatic judgment.
  • Are low-ego, responsive, and motivated by helping researchers and engineers move faster.
  • Prefer being a highly effective hands-on IC over driving broad process-heavy initiatives.
  • Have experience reviewing messy, fast-moving, or AI-generated codebases.

Compensation Range: $295K - $380K USD

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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100 employees
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2015

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