Training Performance Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco

OpenAI is hiring a Training Performance Engineer in San Francisco. The role focuses on operating systems & kernel, compilers & runtimes, databases & storage, virtualization & containers, graphics, gpu & compute, low-latency & performance.

Key responsibilities

• This role blends deep systems understanding with practical performance engineering — analyzing GPU kernel performance, collective communication throughput, investigating I/O bottlenecks, and sharding our models so we can train them at massive scale.
• Collaborate with runtime and systems engineers to improve kernel efficiency, scheduling, and collective communication performance.
• Training Runtime designs the core distributed machine-learning training runtime that powers everything from early research experiments to frontier-scale model runs.

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