Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power Management

About this role

Join OpenAI's Frontier Systems team to architect and optimize power management software for the world's largest AI training supercomputers. You'll develop system-level solutions to monitor, stabilize, and efficiently manage power consumption across hyperscale infrastructure while collaborating with hardware and research teams.

What you'll do

• Design and implement software solutions to optimize power usage and efficiency in large-scale supercomputer systems
• Build automation to monitor power patterns during training workloads and develop algorithms to prevent grid instability
• Create tools for real-time power fault detection and automated remediation across hardware and systems
• Develop dynamic power throttling mechanisms that adjust consumption based on workload and infrastructure constraints
• Collaborate with hardware teams to integrate power control requirements into IT hardware design
• Perform deep system-level investigations into power-related issues and translate findings into automated solutions

What they're looking for

• Python programming and automation scripting (shell, etc.)
• Distributed systems and streaming data analysis
• Electrical engineering concepts (signal processing, power systems, FFT)
• System-level investigation and fault detection/remediation
• Data analysis tools (SQL, PromQL, Pandas)
• Cross-functional collaboration between hardware and software teams
• Control systems fundamentals
• Supercomputing or large-scale ML workload experience