OpenAI
ChatGPT Performance Engineer
USRemotePosted Today$325,000 – $405,000
Full TimeSeniorRemoteUS
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Job Description
About the Team We bring OpenAI’s technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this
Key Highlights
- Analyze and optimize performance across application, middleware, runtime, and infrastructure layers—networking, storage, Python runtime, GPU utilization, and beyond.
- Develop tooling and metrics that provide deep observability into system performance.
- Collaborate closely with infra, platform, training, and product teams to identify key performance goals and drive systemic improvements.
- Influence architecture and design decisions to prioritize latency, throughput, and efficiency at scale.
- Lead investigations into high-impact performance regressions or scalability issues in production.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong track record in performance or reliability of high-scale distributed systems.
- Are deeply comfortable with performance profiling tools and tracing systems.
- Have experience optimizing performance across one or more layers of the stack (e.g., database, networking, storage, application runtime, GC tuning, Python/Golang internals, GPU utilization).
- Have a strong understanding of OS internals, scheduling, memory management, and IO patterns.
- Have contributed to observability, benchmarking, or performance-focused infrastructure at scale.
- Have demonstrated success navigating ambiguity and aligning stakeholders around performance goals.
- Value simplicity, rigor, and collaboration when solving complex systems problems.
Skills & Technologies
PythonGolang
About the Company
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range
$325,000 – $405,000
Location
US
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
Today
Country
US