Software Engineer, GPT Infrastructure

• Strong software engineering experience building distributed systems, infrastructure platforms, production services, developer platforms, or orchestration systems.

• Proficiency in one or more systems-oriented languages such as Python, C++, Go, or Rust.

• Experience designing and operating APIs, job orchestration systems, durable workflows, or large-scale backend services.

• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, storage, containers, distributed execution, and modern infrastructure architectures.

• Ability to reason about model execution and diagnose problems across software and hardware boundaries.

• Experience using profiling, tracing, benchmarking, and measurement to guide engineering decisions.

• Strong ownership and the ability to work effectively across research, engineering, security, product, and external-partner teams.

• Experience with AI infrastructure, model inference, distributed ML systems, or inference-serving platforms.

• Familiarity with GPU or accelerator architecture, memory hierarchies, interconnects, collective communication, and distributed model execution.

• Experience with compilers, runtimes, kernels, or performance engineering using technologies such as CUDA, ROCm, Triton, LLVM, or MLIR.

• Familiarity with inference engines or serving systems such as vLLM, SGLang, Triton Inference Server, or comparable internal systems.

• Experience with model partitioning, sharding, tensor or expert parallelism, and compute–communication tradeoffs.

• Experience building remote-execution systems, secure partner-facing infrastructure, evaluation harnesses, or artifact pipelines.

• Experience with automated optimization, search systems, coding agents, or evaluator-driven systems that iteratively improve kernels or runtime configurations.

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