Software Engineer, Inference – AMD GPU Enablement at OpenAI

San Francisco, California, United States

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$325,000 – $490,000Compensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Artificial Intelligence, TechnologyIndustries

Requirements

  • Experience writing or porting GPU kernels using HIP, CUDA, or Triton, and care deeply about low-level performance
  • Familiar with communication libraries like NCCL/RCCL and understand their role in high-throughput model serving
  • Worked on distributed inference systems and comfortable scaling models across fleets of accelerators
  • Enjoy solving end-to-end performance challenges across hardware, system libraries, and orchestration layers
  • Excited to be part of a small, fast-moving team building new infrastructure from first principles

Responsibilities

  • Own bring-up, correctness and performance of the OpenAI inference stack on AMD hardware
  • Integrate internal model-serving infrastructure (e.g., vLLM, Triton) into a variety of GPU-backed systems
  • Debug and optimize distributed inference workloads across memory, network, and compute layers
  • Validate correctness, performance, and scalability of model execution on large GPU clusters
  • Collaborate with partner teams to design and optimize high-performance GPU kernels for accelerators using HIP, Triton, or other performance-focused frameworks
  • Collaborate with partner teams to build, integrate and tune collective communication libraries (e.g., RCCL) used to parallelize model execution across many GPUs

Skills

AMD GPU
HIP
Triton
vLLM
RCCL
GPU kernels
distributed inference
performance optimization

OpenAI

Develops safe and beneficial AI technologies

About OpenAI

OpenAI develops and deploys artificial intelligence technologies aimed at benefiting humanity. The company creates advanced AI models capable of performing various tasks, such as automating processes and enhancing creativity. OpenAI's products, like Sora, allow users to generate videos from text descriptions, showcasing the versatility of its AI applications. Unlike many competitors, OpenAI operates under a capped profit model, which limits the profits it can make and ensures that excess earnings are redistributed to maximize the social benefits of AI. This commitment to safety and ethical considerations is central to its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence (AGI) serves all of humanity.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2015Year Founded
$18,433.2MTotal Funding
LATE_VCCompany Stage
AI & Machine LearningIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental and vision insurance
Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care
Mental healthcare service
Fertility treatment coverage
401(k) with generous matching
20-week paid parental leave
Life insurance (complimentary)
AD&D insurance (complimentary)
Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)
Optional buy-up life insurance
Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)
Annual learning & development stipend
Regular team happy hours and outings
Daily catered lunch and dinner
Travel to domestic conferences

Risks

Elon Musk's legal battle may pose financial and reputational challenges for OpenAI.
Customizable ChatGPT personas could lead to privacy and ethical concerns.
Competitors like Anthropic raising capital may intensify market competition.

Differentiation

OpenAI's capped profit model prioritizes ethical AI development over unlimited profit.
OpenAI's AI models, like Sora, offer unique video creation from text descriptions.
OpenAI's focus on AGI aims to create AI systems smarter than humans.

Upsides

OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding boosts its AI research and computational capacity.
Customizable ChatGPT personas enhance user engagement and satisfaction.
OpenAI's 'Operator' AI agent could revolutionize workforce automation by 2025.

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