Hardware / Software CoDesign Engineer - 3P

About the Position

Hardware / Software CoDesign Engineer - 3P

OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is responsible for building the next generation of AI-native silicon while working closely with software and research partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering production-grade silicon for OpenAI’s supercomputing infrastructure, the team also creates custom design tools and methodologies that accelerate innovation and enable hardware optimized specifically for AI.

Responsibilities

• Co-design future hardware for programmability and performance with our hardware vendors
• Assist hardware vendors in developing optimal kernels and add support for it in our compiler
• Develop performance estimates for critical kernels for different hardware configurations and drive decisions on compute core and memory hierarchy features
• Build system performance models at different abstraction levels and carry out analysis to drive decisions on scale up, scale out, front end networking
• Work with machine learning engineers, kernel engineers and compiler developers to understand their vision and needs from high performance accelerators
• Manage communication and coordination with internal and external partners
• Influence the roadmap of hardware partners to optimize them for OpenAI’s workloads.
• Evaluate potential partners’ accelerators and platforms.
• As the scope of the role and team grows, understand and influence roadmaps for hardware partners for our datacenter networks, racks, and buildings.

Requirements

• 4+ years of industry experience, including experience harnessing compute at scale and optimizing ML platform code to run efficiently on target hardware.
• Strong experience in software/hardware co-design
• Deep understanding of GPU and/or other AI accelerators
• Experience with CUDA, Triton or a related accelerator programming language
• Experience driving Machine Learning accuracy with low precision formats
• Experience with system performance modeling and analysis to optimize ML model deployment
• Strong coding skills in C/C++ and Python
• Familiarity with the fundamentals of deep learning computing and chip architecture/microarchitecture.
• Ability to actively collaborate with ML engineers, kernel writers, compiler developers, system engineers, chip architects/microarchitects

Preferred Skills

• PhD in Computer Science and Engineering with a specialization in Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing, Compilers or other Systems
• Strong understanding of LLMs and challenges related to their training and inference

We Offer

• Compensation: $381K – $485K • Offers Equity
• 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.

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. 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.

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