Compute Infrastructure Deployment Lead

OpenAI

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Research Services 👥 201 employees 📍 San Francisco, CA, US Est. 2015

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with…

Job Overview

We're seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join our team at OpenAI. This remote DevOps position involves building and operating the infrastructure behind OpenAI's research and products, designing for scale, performance, and adaptability across a global footprint.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Programs

• Ship cross-stack, highly technical infrastructure programs end-to-end: frame the problem, define requirements, run fast validations, and deliver to production with clear success metrics
• Own outcomes end-to-end, and move fast to validate approaches while balancing total cost, performance, and operability
• Maintain precise technical intuition while shipping pragmatic solutions to complex, ambiguous infrastructure problems

Vendor Management

• Manage external vendors and partners and make sound calls on cost, performance, and operability to deliver usable FLOPs faster
• Operate both in the weeds at a system level to drive decisions: own the plan of record, force clear trade-offs, and move decisively to unblock execution

Requirements

Experience

• Have led ambiguous, cross-functional infrastructure work to tangible outcomes without waiting for perfect information
• Default to action, can get things done, and enjoy switching between strategy and hands-on work to fully own projects end-end
• Sweat the details and are outcomes-driven, owning technical nuances while also zooming out for the full picture

Skills

• Have a humble attitude and a desire to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to successfully deliver infrastructure systems
• Operate with high horsepower, have strong problem-solving skills, are adept at frequent context switching, effectively manage working on multiple projects at once with ownership, and ruthlessly prioritize

About the Company

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.

Compensation

The compensation range for this remote infrastructure engineering position is $245K - $310K.