Software Engineer, Core Network Engineering

OpenAI · San Francisco

OpenAI is hiring a Software Engineer, Core Network Engineering in San Francisco. The role focuses on operating systems & kernel, databases & storage, networking, graphics, gpu & compute, low-latency & performance.

Key responsibilities

• The Core Network Engineering team owns the end-to-end networking stack that connects OpenAI’s compute infrastructure — spanning global WAN/edge connectivity, data-center networking, and high-performance host/xPU networking used for large-scale training and inference workloads.
• This team is responsible for ensuring networking is never the bottleneck to model training efficiency, cluster reliability, or fleet expansion.
• The problems span low-level systems software, distributed infrastructure, protocol readiness, observability, performance engineering, automation, and large-scale network operations.

Source and corrections

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