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AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

OpenAI is seeking an experienced Solutions Engineer to join their Technical Success team, focusing on startup partnerships. This role is crucial in ensuring the successful deployment of ChatGPT and OpenAI API applications among innovative startup partners. Based in San Francisco with a hybrid work model, this position offers a competitive salary range of $220K-$280K plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

The ideal candidate will serve as a bridge between OpenAI's cutting-edge AI technology and startup implementations, working directly with founders to shape AI strategy and identify high-value use cases. This role requires a unique blend of technical expertise, business acumen, and startup experience, with responsibilities ranging from technical pre-sales support to representing OpenAI at VC events.

Key qualifications include 7+ years of technical pre-sales experience, founder/CTO experience, strong programming skills in Python and JavaScript, and deep understanding of AI/LLM best practices. The role offers an opportunity to shape the future of AI implementation in startups while working with OpenAI's latest models and capabilities.

The position comes with excellent benefits including comprehensive health coverage, mental health support, generous parental leave, and professional development opportunities. This is an ideal role for someone passionate about AI technology who wants to impact how startups leverage artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions.

OpenAI maintains a strong commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, ensuring their technology benefits all of humanity. They offer a collaborative work environment where team members can directly influence the future of AI technology while helping startups bring novel applications to market.

Solutions Engineer position at OpenAI focusing on helping startups implement ChatGPT and OpenAI API applications, offering competitive salary and benefits in San Francisco.

Solutions Engineer, Startups

OpenAI's Safety Systems team is at the forefront of ensuring AI safety and deployment, focusing on both immediate practical applications and long-term research. The Safety Reasoning Research team works on improving foundational models' ability to reason about safety, values, and cultural norms, while developing robust moderation systems and addressing critical societal challenges.

As a Research Engineer/Scientist in Safety Reasoning, you'll be pioneering innovative machine learning techniques to enhance our foundation model's safety understanding and capabilities. The role combines cutting-edge research with practical applications, working on critical initiatives such as moderation policy enforcement, democratic policy development, and safety reward modeling.

The position offers a competitive compensation package ranging from $245K to $440K, plus equity and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, mental health support, and a generous 401(k) matching program. You'll be part of a team that values diversity, safety-first approaches, and is committed to beneficial AI development.

Working at OpenAI means contributing to the development of safe, universally beneficial AGI. The role requires strong technical expertise, with 5+ years of research engineering experience and proficiency in Python. Your work will directly impact how AI systems understand and implement safety measures, making this an opportunity to shape the future of AI technology while ensuring it remains aligned with human values and safety requirements.

Join a team that's pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities while maintaining a strong focus on safety and ethical considerations. You'll collaborate with policy researchers, contribute to multimodal content analysis, and help develop robust systems for preventing harmful AI behaviors. This role offers the unique opportunity to work on both theoretical and practical aspects of AI safety, making a real difference in how AI technology is developed and deployed responsibly.

Research position at OpenAI focusing on improving AI safety systems and developing innovative machine learning techniques for enhanced model safety and reasoning capabilities.

Research Engineer / Scientist, Safety Reasoning

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI's ideas safely to the world! The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI's technology to consumers and businesses. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.

As OpenAI continues to grow, we are looking for experienced, problem-solving engineers to ensure our systems scale. Our success depends on our ability to quickly iterate on products while also ensuring that they are performant and reliable. You will work in a deeply iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure it's delivered with safety and reliability in mind. Successful candidates will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems as we continue to expand.

In this role, you will:
- Design and implement solutions to ensure the scalability of our infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demands.
- Collaborate with development teams to make the systems they design and operate more reliable.
- Implement and manage monitoring systems to proactively identify issues and anomalies in our production environment.
- Develop and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs) to measure and ensure system reliability.
- Implement fault-tolerant and resilient design patterns to minimize service disruptions.
- Build and maintain automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and improve system reliability.
- Partner with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents and ensure 24/7 system availability.

Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Proven experience as a reliability engineer or a similar role in a fast-paced, rapidly scaling company.
- Strong proficiency in cloud infrastructure.
- Proficiency in programming/scripting languages.
- Experience with containerization technologies and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with observability tools such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk and ELK stack.
- Experience with microservices architecture and service mesh technologies.
- Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.

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

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer, Reliability to ensure system scalability, reliability, and performance as the company grows.

Software Engineer, Reliability

AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Our team is responsible for the post-training phase of ChatGPT, transforming large pre-trained models into powerful, safe, and user-friendly chatbots. We're seeking an engineer to accelerate the deployment of improvements to our models. You'll collaborate with diverse teams handling various facets of the system, including core capabilities, multimodal integration, and tools. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of ChatGPT, working across the technology stack.

Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the regular release process of ChatGPT and API models
- Diagnosing and resolving systems and ML issues in large ML codebases
- Ensuring a stable, smooth, and user-friendly model development process
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design new features and integrate enhancements

The ideal candidate has a robust technical background in data technologies, reliable software engineering, production ML model development, and cross-functional collaboration. A deep understanding of ML fundamentals and large-scale deep learning is essential. Excellent communication and project management skills are crucial.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.

Join us in shaping the future of technology and ensuring that the benefits of AI are widely shared.

OpenAI seeks a Post-training Model Fusion Research Engineer to enhance ChatGPT's capabilities and lead deployment improvements.

Post-training - Model Fusion Research Engineer

The Frontiers Infrastructure team at OpenAI builds low-level framework components to power ML training systems. They focus on creating robust, debuggable, high-performance libraries to support distributed training workloads. The team's priorities are maximizing researcher productivity and hardware efficiency to accelerate progress towards AGI.

As a Frontiers Infrastructure Engineer, you'll work on delivering powerful APIs that orchestrate thousands of computers for moving and persisting vast amounts of data. This role requires creating easy-to-use, introspectible systems that promote fast debugging and development cycles while scaling to the newest supercomputers with stability and performance.

Key responsibilities include:
- Working across the Python stack
- Profiling, optimizing, and designing for scale in compute and data capabilities
- Building and maintaining tools used by researchers
- Deploying the training framework to the latest supercomputers, rapidly responding to changing ML system needs

The ideal candidate should:
- Have experience with large distributed systems
- Love figuring out how systems work and continuously improve them
- Enjoy accelerating research
- Possess strong software engineering skills and proficiency in Python

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. OpenAI offers relocation assistance to new employees and is committed to diversity, equal opportunity, and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Join OpenAI in shaping the future of technology and ensuring that the benefits of AI are widely shared.

OpenAI seeks a Frontiers Infrastructure Engineer to build powerful APIs for ML training systems, optimizing performance and scalability.

Frontiers Infrastructure Engineer

The Applied Infrastructure team at OpenAI designs, builds, and operates the foundational infrastructure that powers ChatGPT and the API. As a Software Engineer in Infrastructure, you will:

- Design and build development and production platforms for reliability and security at scale
- Accelerate engineering productivity with excellent tooling and systems
- Partner with product engineers to lay technical foundations for new features and research capabilities
- Guide product engineering teams on best practices for observable, scalable systems
- Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture
- Participate in on-call rotation for critical incidents

You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have 8+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years in infrastructure
- Care deeply about building a diverse, equitable, inclusive culture
- Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
- Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
- Have a strong desire to learn and share knowledge effectively

Technologies you'll work with include Kubernetes, Python, FastAPI, Cosmos DB, Postgres, and Terraform.

This role is exclusively based in the San Francisco HQ, with relocation assistance available. OpenAI is committed to safety, diversity, and using AI to benefit humanity.

Join OpenAI as a Software Engineer in Infrastructure to build and operate foundational systems for ChatGPT and API.

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

The Sora team at OpenAI is working on making video a key capability of OpenAI's foundation models. As a Distributed Training Engineer for Sora, you will work on improving the training throughput for our internal training framework and enable researchers to experiment with new ideas. This role requires strong engineering skills, the ability to write bug-free machine learning code, and deep knowledge of supercomputer performance.

Key responsibilities include:
- Collaborating with researchers to develop systems-efficient video models and architectures
- Applying the latest techniques to achieve impressive hardware efficiency for training runs
- Profiling and optimizing the training framework

The ideal candidate should have experience with multi-modal ML pipelines, strong software engineering skills (particularly in Python), experience with understanding and optimizing training kernels, and a passion for understanding stable training dynamics.

OpenAI offers a competitive compensation package, including a salary range of $295K – $440K, generous equity, and comprehensive benefits such as medical insurance, mental health support, 401(k) matching, unlimited time off, and paid parental leave.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. OpenAI is committed to diversity, equality, and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Join OpenAI as a Distributed Training Engineer for Sora, working on cutting-edge video AI models and optimizing training frameworks.

Distributed Training Engineer, Sora

OpenAI is a leading artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc.

OpenAI is seeking a highly skilled HW/SW Co-Design Engineer to join our team in San Francisco. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of artificial intelligence technology, focusing on optimizing hardware and software integration for AI workloads.

As a HW/SW Co-Design Engineer, you will be responsible for performance modeling/analysis and identifying bottlenecks in AI workloads. Your expertise will be crucial in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of our AI systems. This position requires a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience outside of internships and academia, indicating that we're looking for a seasoned professional with a proven track record in the field.

OpenAI offers a competitive compensation package, with a salary range of $360,000 to $530,000 per year, depending on your experience and qualifications. In addition to the base salary, we provide generous equity and an impressive benefits package that includes:

1. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
2. Mental health and wellness support
3. 401(k) plan with 50% matching
4. Unlimited time off and 13 company holidays per year
5. 20 weeks of paid parental leave and family-planning support
6. Annual learning & development stipend of $1,500

We value work-life balance and offer a hybrid work model, requiring you to be present at our San Francisco HQ for 3 days per week. This arrangement allows for both collaborative in-person work and the flexibility of remote work.

Joining OpenAI means being part of a team that's pushing the boundaries of AI technology. You'll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects and contribute to advancements that could shape the future of artificial intelligence. If you're passionate about AI, have a strong background in hardware and software co-design, and are ready to take on complex challenges, we encourage you to apply for this exciting role at OpenAI.

OpenAI seeks a HW/SW Co-Design Engineer to optimize AI workloads with 7+ years experience. Hybrid role in San Francisco.

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