OpenAI

Software Engineer, Model Inference

OpenAI • $150K — $180K *
San Francisco, CA 94112In-Person
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Familiar with modern ML architectures and inference optimization
  • Proficient with PyTorch and NVidia GPU optimization tools like NCCL and CUDA
  • Experience with High-Performance Computing technologies (InfiniBand, MPI, NVLink)
  • Demonstrated ability to architect and debug production distributed systems
  • History of scaling and refactoring production systems
  • Self-directed with a collaborative attitude

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with researchers and product managers to deploy cutting-edge technologies
  • Enable advanced research through innovative engineering techniques
  • Introduce methods to enhance model performance and reduce latency
  • Develop tools for identifying bottlenecks and instability in systems
  • Optimize code and Azure virtual machines for maximum resource utilization

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with the world's largest AI models
  • Collaborative environment with machine learning researchers and engineers
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies
  • Focus on performance optimization in a production environment
  • Chance to contribute to significant advancements in AI
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are looking for an engineer who wants to take the world's largest and most capable AI models and optimize them for use in a high-volume, low-latency, and high-availability production and research environment.

In this role, you will:
  • Work alongside machine learning researchers, engineers, and product managers to bring our latest technologies into production.
  • Work alongside researchers to enable advanced research through awesome engineering.
  • Introduce new techniques, tools, and architecture that improve the performance, latency, throughput, and efficiency of our model inference stack.
  • Build tools to give us visibility into our bottlenecks and sources of instability and then design and implement solutions to address the highest priority issues.
  • Optimize our code and fleet of Azure VMs to utilize every FLOP and every GB of GPU RAM of our hardware.

You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have an understanding of modern ML architectures and an intuition for how to optimize their performance, particularly for inference.
  • Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.
  • Have at least 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Have or can quickly gain familiarity with PyTorch, NVidia GPUs and the software stacks that optimize them (e.g. NCCL, CUDA), as well as HPC technologies such as InfiniBand, MPI, NVLink, etc.
  • Have experience architecting, building, observing, and debugging production distributed systems. Bonus point if worked on performance-critical distributed systems.
  • Have needed to rebuild or substantially refactor production systems several times over due to rapidly increasing scale.
  • Are self-directed and enjoy figuring out the most important problem to work on.
  • Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.

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.
Learn more about OpenAI
Size
100 employees
Industry
Information Technology
Founded
2015
* Ladders Estimates

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