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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Research Engineer

Builds advanced AI systems using massive-scale distributed machine learning to achieve breakthrough performance. Requires strong programming skills and experience with large distributed systems.

250k – 445k/yr
On-siteAI Research

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build AI systems that perform previously impossible tasks or achieve unprecedented performance levels.
  • Design, implement, and improve massive-scale distributed machine learning systems.
  • Write bug-free machine learning code.
  • Build the science behind algorithms employed.
  • Work in large distributed systems.

Requirements

  • Strong programming skills.
  • Experience working in large distributed systems.
  • Excited about OpenAI’s approach to research.

Nice to Have

  • Interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology.
  • Past experience in creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms.

Skills

PythonDistributed SystemsMachine LearningDeep LearningPyTorchTensorFlowCUDAJAXScaling Ml SystemsHigh-Performance Computing

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