openai
Performance & Systems Engineer, Codex
San Franciscofulltimemid
About this role
OpenAI seeks a Performance & Systems Engineer for the Codex team to optimize AI code-generation systems across the entire stack. You'll identify and implement high-impact improvements in latency and cost across LLM inference, cloud orchestration, and agentic systems that power millions of users.
What you'll do
- Identify and fix performance bottlenecks across agent behavior, LLM inference, and container orchestration
- Build profiling and measurement tools for system performance at scale
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers to deploy high-ROI optimization changes
- Analyze and optimize across infrastructure, modeling, and product layers
- Balance speed, cost, and user experience in system design decisions
What they're looking for
- ML systems and cloud infrastructure expertise
- Performance profiling and optimization
- LLM inference optimization
- Cloud orchestration and containerization
- System-level debugging and bottleneck analysis
- Full-stack thinking across infrastructure to applications
- Ambiguity tolerance and problem-solving
Benefits
- Hybrid work model (3 days in-office per week)
- Relocation assistance available
- High-ownership role with direct user impact
- Work on cutting-edge AI systems
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