Software Engineer, Frontier Systems
About the Team The Frontier Systems team at OpenAI builds, launches, and supports the largest supercomputers in the world that OpenAI uses for its most cutting edge model training. We take data center designs, turn them into real, working systems and build any software needed for running large-scale frontier model trai
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Software Engineer, Frontier Systems at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team The Frontier Systems team at OpenAI builds, launches, and supports the largest supercomputers in the world that OpenAI uses for its most cutting edge model training. We take data center designs, turn them into real, working systems and build any software needed for running large-scale frontier model trai
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- Own and improve the system health checks that keep our hyperscale supercomputers stable during model training.
- Lead deep dives into hardware failures and system-level bugs to understand how things break at scale.
- Build automation that monitors and fixes issues across thousands of machines - so researchers can keep moving without interruption.
- 7+ years of industry experience in software engineering
- Proficiency with Python and shell scripting
- A high degree of comfort digging into noisy data with SQL, PromQL, and Pandas or any other tool necessary
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