Software Engineer, TPU Compilers
- Location
- San Francisco, CA (Remote) · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Listed
- 19 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- TPU optimization
- kernel development
- performance profiling
- model inference optimization
- quantization
Also useful
- XLA
- JAX
About the Role
We’re looking for an engineer to lead the optimization of OpenAI’s state-of-the-art frontier models on TPUs. You will own performance across the full forward pass, from model code through kernels to execution on the hardware.
You’ll have broad technical ownership: identifying performance bottlenecks, choosing the most impactful improvements, and carrying them through implementation and validation. We welcome experience gained through either training or inference, with a strong foundation in optimizing real workloads on TPUs.
In This Role, You Will
- Optimize model execution on TPUs, improving performance across the complete forward pass and the interactions between model code, kernels, and hardware.
- Profile workloads, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements to latency, throughput, and hardware utilization.
- Develop and optimize kernels, using an understanding of the surrounding model to guide implementation choices.
- Explore techniques such as quantization to improve inference efficiency while preserving model quality.
- Build benchmarks and tools to measure performance, validate correctness, and guide optimization work.
- Partner with researchers and engineers to support new model architectures and bring performance improvements into production.
You Might Thrive in This Role If You
- Have practical experience optimizing machine learning workloads on TPUs, through training, inference, or both.
- Understand modern model architectures and how their computation maps onto accelerator hardware.
- Can connect detailed kernel behavior to the performance of a complete model and work across these layers of the stack.
- Bring strong software engineering skills and a systematic approach to profiling, debugging, and validating performance improvements.
- Take ownership of open-ended technical problems and can identify priorities, make design decisions, and deliver working solutions.
- Enjoys collaborating with researchers and engineers, learning unfamiliar parts of a system, and communicating technical tradeoffs.
- Have experience with quantization or attention kernels, which would be especially useful in this role.
About the Team
Our Inference team brings OpenAI’s most capable research and technology to the world through our products. We empower consumers, enterprises and developers alike to use and access our state-of-the-art AI models, allowing them to do things that they’ve never been able to before. We focus on performant and efficient model inference, as well as accelerating research progression via model inference.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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Equal opportunity and legal notices
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information.
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From OpenAI's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 20, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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