Software Engineer, Fleet Scheduling

About the Team

Scheduling within the Fleet Scheduling team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring the reliability, scalability, and user-friendliness of job lifecycle management, with an emphasis on efficient and flexible job scheduling, quota management, and job execution workflows. Our focus on fleet management ensures seamless integration and operation across multiple clusters, reducing operational burdens and enhancing system performance. We maximize researcher productivity by ensuring high goodput, efficient packing, and a consistent, ergonomic training workflow, while scaling to ever-larger supercomputing fleets.

About the Role

As an engineer within Fleet Scheduling, you will design, write, deploy, and operate job lifecycle management systems for model training on some of the largest supercomputers in the world. You will be instrumental in managing and optimizing supercomputing fleets to support large-scale AI research. The scale is immense, the timelines are tight, and the organization is moving fast; this is an opportunity to shape a critical system in support of OpenAI's mission to advance AI capabilities responsibly.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Design, implement and operate components of our compute fleet, including quota management, job scheduling, and queuing systems. In short, you will work on the key user interface to our supercomputers.
• Interface with researchers and product teams to understand workload requirements
• Harmonize job lifecycle features with cluster infrastructure, storage, and hardware health requirements.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience with hyperscale scheduling systems
• Possess strong programming skills
• Have experience working in public clouds (especially Azure)
• Have experience working in Kubernetes
• Execution focused mentality paired with a rigorous focus on user requirements
• As a bonus, have an understanding of AI/ML workloads

About OpenAI

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. 

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. 

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