Software Engineer, Platform Systems
OpenAILondon, England, United Kingdom
Posted January 23, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Job Description
The Platform Systems team at OpenAI operates at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and large-scale distributed systems. As a Software Engineer, Platform Systems, you will design and build distributed systems that provide visibility into large-scale training workloads and help operate them reliably at scale.
Requirements
- Design and build distributed failure detection, tracing, and profiling systems for large-scale AI training jobs
- Develop tooling to identify slow, faulty, or misbehaving nodes and provide actionable visibility into system behavior
- Improve observability, reliability, and performance across OpenAI's training platform
- Debug and resolve issues in complex, high-throughput distributed systems
- Collaborate with systems, infrastructure, and research teams to evolve platform capabilities
- Extend and adapt failure detection systems or tracing systems to support new training paradigms and workloads