Description
Job Posting
Software Engineer, Compute - Storage
Location
San Francisco; New York City
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Scaling
Compensation
- $230K – $385K • Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
About the Team
Storage Infrastructure provides APIs for data access, placement, and lifecycle management, while ensuring that the storage systems’ capacity, throughput, and IOPs satisfy the needs of our AI researchers. Scalability, reliability, security, and usability are the core concerns of the team.
About the Role
As an engineer on the Storage Infrastructure team, you will design, build, and operate Exascale systems to scalably and reliably manage our research data across multiple regions.
We’re looking for distributed systems engineers who have worked on exascale data management systems or distributed filesystems.
In this role, you will:
- Develop software to manage exascale data, and make it accessible to researchers
- Drive the reliability, predictability, and cost effectiveness of our storage systems
- Interface with researchers to understand and accommodate data use-cases
- Ensure the security of our critical datasets
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have a deep understanding of distributed systems principles and a proven track record in designing and building scalable, reliable, and secure storage solutions.
- Possess strong programming skills
- Have experience working in public clouds (especially Azure)
- Are familiar with AI/ML data access patterns
- Bias for action and comfort building in a fast paced, dynamic environment
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.