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Posted Apr 203P Systems Architect
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- - Collaborate with performance modeling teams to evaluate architectural tradeoffs and system behaviors.
Requirements
- About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops system and infrastructure solutions tailored to the demands of advanced AI workloads.
- We work across the full stack—from silicon to system integration—partnering closely with internal teams and external vendors to define and deliver next-generation AI infrastructure.
- This role requires strong system intuition, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to operate effectively across internal teams and external ecosystems.
- Responsibilities - Define rack- and cluster-level reference architectures for AI infrastructure deployments. - Translate workload
- - Track emerging technologies and evaluate their applicability to AI systems.
- experience in system architecture for large-scale infrastructure or data center environments. - Understand AI workload characteristics and how they map to system-level design decisions. - Are comfortable working with performance modeling outputs to inform architectural direction. - Have
- experience working with or managing hardware vendors (ODM/JDM, silicon, networking). - Can drive alignment across multiple stakeholders with competing constraints. - Have a track record of turning ambiguous
- Experience defining rack- or cluster-level systems for hyperscale or AI workloads. - Familiarity with accelerators (GPUs/ASICs), interconnects, and data center networking architectures. -
- Experience leading PoCs or early-stage hardware validation efforts. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- Our team focuses on defining scalable, high-performance system architectures and reference designs that balance performance, cost, and operational efficiency across rapidly evolving technologies.
- About the Role We are seeking a 3P Architect to define and drive rack- and cluster-level reference designs in collaboration with external partners. This role is responsible for translating workload
- requirements and system-level goals into concrete architectures, aligning partners on critical design attributes, and ensuring vendor roadmaps meet our infrastructure needs.
- You will work closely with performance modeling and internal architecture teams to evaluate tradeoffs, while owning the end-to-end definition and execution of third-party system designs.
- This includes identifying gaps in current technologies, driving vendor development, and shaping future infrastructure capabilities.
- We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance. Key
- requirements into clear system design specifications and partner deliverables.
- - Align internal stakeholders and external partners on critical system attributes (performance, cost, power, reliability, scalability).
- - Identify gaps in current technology offerings and drive vendors (ODM/JDM, silicon, networking) to close those gaps.
- - Influence and shape vendor roadmaps to meet future infrastructure needs.