engineering
Posted Apr 15ChatGPT Performance Engineer
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - 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.
- - Lead investigations into high-impact performance regressions or scalability issues in production.
- - Drive performance testing strategies and help define SLAs/SLOs around latency and throughput for critical systems.
Requirements
- 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 powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.
- In this role, you'll apply deep technical expertise to optimize infrastructure and application-level performance across mission-critical products like ChatGPT and our developer API.
- We are looking for engineers who thrive in ambiguous environments, value deep systems understanding, and are motivated by delivering measurable impact.
- YOU WILL: - Analyze and optimize performance across application, middleware, runtime, and infrastructure layers—networking, storage, Python runtime, GPU utilization, and beyond.
- 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.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Experience
- YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU: - Have 7+ years of
Additional details
- ABOUT THE ROLE OpenAI is looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to help us scale the performance, reliability, and efficiency of our systems.
- You’ll work cross-functionally with teams building core services, training models, and developing real-time user experiences to push our latency, throughput, and cost-efficiency to the next level.
- This is a highly technical, individual contributor role focused on root-cause analysis, profiling, instrumentation, and architecture-level performance improvements across our stack. IN THIS ROLE,
- - Influence architecture and design decisions to prioritize latency, throughput, and efficiency at scale.
- - 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.