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ChatGPT Performance Engineer

About the TeamWe bring OpenAI's technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safe

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco; New York City; Seattle; US - Remote

Status

Open

Posted

2026-04-15T16:18:29.991+00:00

OpenAI is hiring a performance engineer to improve latency, throughput and cost efficiency across ChatGPT and the developer API. The work covers profiling and root-cause analysis at application, middleware, runtime and infrastructure layers — networking, storage, Python runtime, GPU utilization — plus observability tooling, performance testing and SLAs. It asks for 7+ years in software engineering on high-scale distributed systems, comfort with profiling and tracing tools, and knowledge of OS internals. It is a technical individual contributor role, open in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle or remotely in the US.