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ChatGPT Performance Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$130 - $180/hr

About the Role OpenAI is looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to help us scale the ... Have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong track record in performance or ...

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ChatGPT Performance Engineer

Seattle, WA · On-site

About the Role OpenAI is looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to help us scale the ... Have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong track record in performance or ...

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ChatGPT Performance Engineer

New York, NY · On-site +1

$325K - $405K/yr

About the Role OpenAI is looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to help us scale the ... Have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong track record in performance or ...

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ChatGPT Performance Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

About the Role OpenAI is looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to help us scale the ... Have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong track record in performance or ...

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ChatGPT Performance Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

About the Role OpenAI is looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to help us scale the ... Have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong track record in performance or ...

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Workload Porting & Performance Engineer

Seattle, WA · On-site

$293K - $385K/yr

About the Team OpenAI's Infrastructure organization builds and evaluates the systems that power ... Debug issues across the stack, including software, runtime, and hardware interactions. * Provide ...

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Software Engineer, Kernel Performance & AI Tooling

OpenAI

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$164K/yr

Full-time

Re-posted 9 days ago

Job description

Job Summary:
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The role involves advancing kernel development, performance engineering, and hardware-software co-design capabilities with a focus on AI-assisted workflows and tooling.
Responsibilities:
• Build developer tooling and workflows that make kernel development and performance optimization faster, more scalable, and easier to debug, integrate, and deploy.
• Develop observability, diagnostics, and validation infrastructure that makes AI-assisted optimization systems more interpretable, reliable, and effective.
• Optimize production kernels end to end by formulating optimization problems, running search loops, analyzing bottlenecks, debugging generated implementations, and landing improvements into production.
• Design abstractions, interfaces, and automation systems that accelerate kernel optimization, correctness validation, and hardware-software co-design.
• Improve AI-assisted optimization systems for specialized tasks through better datasets, evaluations, benchmarking, and research infrastructure.
• Partner across research and engineering teams to turn new ideas into practical systems spanning production needs and long-term infrastructure strategy.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Strong systems or tooling engineering experience, with a background in low-level software, performance optimization, or infrastructure.
• Experience with developer tooling, debugging infrastructure, profiling, observability, or workflow design for technical users.
• Depth in kernel development, accelerator architecture, compiler systems, or related performance-critical domains.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted systems, agentic workflows, post-training, or reinforcement learning for engineering or research applications.
• Strong experimental judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to move fluidly between research exploration and production execution.
• Interest in compilers, DSLs, program synthesis, or AI for systems.
Preferred:
• The ideal candidate is a strong systems and tooling engineer with real depth in kernels and accelerators.
• They are comfortable working across software and hardware boundaries, can reason deeply about performance, abstractions, and system design, and have hands-on experience optimizing code for GPUs, high-performance CPUs, or custom accelerators.
• They view AI not as the end product, but as a force multiplier for engineering productivity and system optimization.
Company:
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.

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