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Data Infrastructure Engineer
Applied AI Engineering
on site: San Francisco, CA
added Thu Aug 31, 2023
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About the Team

The Applied team safely brings OpenAI's technology to the world. We released ChatGPT; Plugins; DALL·E; and the APIs for GPT-4, GPT-3, embeddings, and fine-tuning. We also operate inference infrastructure at scale. There's a lot more on the immediate horizon.

Our customers build fast-growing businesses around our APIs, which power product features that were never before possible. ChatGPT is a prime example of what is currently possible. We simultaneously ensure that our powerful tools are used responsibly. Safe deployment is more important to us than unfettered growth.

You’ll join the team that’s behind OpenAI’s data infrastructure that powers critical engineering, product, trust & safety, data science teams that are core to the work we do at OpenAI. The systems we support include our data warehouse, Apache Spark infrastructure, data orchestration system, data lake, vector databases, streaming infrastructure, and critical integrations, and ingestion pipelines.

About the Role

The Applied Data Platform team designs, builds, and operates the foundational data infrastructure that enables products and teams at OpenAI.

In this role, you will:

  • Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems such as distributed compute (Spark), data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
  • Ensure our data platform can scale reliably to the next several orders of magnitude
  • Accelerate company productivity by empowering your fellow engineers & teammates with excellent data tooling and systems, providing a best in case experience
  • Bring new features and capabilities to the world by partnering with product engineers, trust & safety and other teams to build the technical foundations
  • Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Have 4+ years in data infrastructure engineering OR
  • Have 4+ years in infrastructure engineering with a strong interest in data
  • Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
  • Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
  • Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills—and an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others

Some of the technologies you’ll be working with include Apache Spark, Python, Terraform, Azure EventHub, Vector DBs.

This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Compensation, Benefits and Perks

The annual salary range for this role is $200,000 – $385,000. Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • 401(k) plan with 4% matching
  • Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
  • Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
  • Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

Compensation, Benefits and Perks

Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • 401(k) plan with 4% matching
  • Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
  • Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
  • Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)
Annual Salary Range
$200,000$385,000 USD

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.

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.