# Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power Management

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Embedded Engineering
**Salary:** $295k – $445k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, Distributed Systems, SQL, Promql, pandas, Shell Scripting, Digital Signal Processing, Fast Fourier Transforms, Automation, Power Systems
**Posted:** 2024-10-31

> Software Engineer develops system-level solutions and automation for optimizing power usage in large-scale supercomputers supporting AI model training. Requires 7+ years experience in software engineering, Python proficiency, distributed systems, and power management investigations.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and implement system-level and software-level solutions to optimize power usage in large-scale supercomputers, ensuring efficient and reliable operations.
- Build automation to monitor power consumption patterns during training workloads and design algorithms to stabilize these fluctuations, preventing issues with grid reliability.
- Work with researchers and engineers to design tools for real-time monitoring, detection, and remediation of power-related hardware and system faults.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to translate complex electrical system requirements into code, while driving continuous improvements in power management solutions.
- Drive the development of power throttling mechanisms at the IT system level to dynamically adjust power usage based on workload demands and infrastructure limitations.
- Collaborate with hardware design teams to integrate system-level power control requirements into IT hardware design, ensuring seamless coordination between software-driven power management and hardware capabilities.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on solving large-scale, system-level challenges.
- Strong proficiency in **Python** and familiarity with automation and scripting tools (e.g., shell scripting).
- Experience with distributed systems to efficiently aggregate and analyze streaming data.
- Knowledge of electrical engineering concepts including digital signal processing, power systems, **Fast Fourier Transforms**, or related areas.
- Experience in system-level investigations and development of automated solutions to address power management, fault detection, and remediation.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to dig into noisy data (experience with **SQL**, **PromQL**, **Pandas**, etc.).
- Comfort working with both hardware and software teams to solve multidisciplinary problems.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Deep expertise with the power characteristics of synchronous workloads (as seen in supercomputing or model training environments).
- Knowledge of power control requirements in IT hardware design, with the ability to drive cross-functional collaboration to integrate power management features into hardware systems effectively.
- Working knowledge of control system fundamentals and how physical systems respond to control strategies.

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