Software Engineer, Fleet Hardware Health

About this role

Join OpenAI's Fleet Hardware team to ensure the reliability and uptime of large-scale compute infrastructure powering AI research and products. You'll build automation systems and monitoring tools for server fleet management, troubleshoot cutting-edge hardware at scale, and collaborate across infrastructure teams to maintain peak performance and minimize costly hardware failures.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain automation for server fleet provisioning and lifecycle management
• Develop monitoring tools to track server health, performance, and lifecycle events
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and hardware inefficiencies
• Collaborate with clusters, networking, and infrastructure teams on system reliability
• Partner with external operators to ensure quality standards
• Automate detection and remediation solutions to reduce manual operational work

What they're looking for

• Python, Go, or similar programming languages
• Linux system administration and kernel tuning
• Server hardware and networking knowledge
• Data analysis with SQL, PromQL, Pandas, or similar tools
• Large-scale infrastructure management experience
• Hardware management protocols (IPMI, Redfish)
• Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
• High-performance computing or distributed systems experience