系统软件工程师，硅基启动
Systems Software Engineer, Silicon Bringup
关于团队
OpenAI 的硬件团队开发适用于先进 AI 工作负载独特需求的原生 AI 芯片和系统级解决方案。在 Jalapeño 等项目的基础上，该团队正在开发下一代原生 AI 芯片和高度集成的系统，以支持前沿模型的下一次迭代。通过芯片、系统、工具和方法的协同设计，该团队帮助为 OpenAI 的超算平台交付更快、更高效且可投入生产的硬件。
关于职位
你将参与系统软件策略和执行，将新的 AI 芯片从首次通电到完全集成的系统运行生产级代表性模型，实现预期的功能和性能。你将定义软件如何测试和验证计算、内存、互连和 I/O 子系统，然后构建诊断、自动化和可观测性工具，以便快速发现问题。
这个职位位于芯片、固件、平台、系统和工作负载团队的核心位置。你将把硬件规格和性能目标转化为端到端的启动计划，推动跨职能调试，并建立压力测试和回归测试基础设施，使每个新平台在不同操作系统环境中都可靠。
在这个职位中，你将：
- 参与新芯片和自有系统的端到端软件启动和验证策略。
- 定义覆盖计算、内存、互连、I/O 及其系统级交互的软件驱动测试范围。
- 构建诊断、测试自动化、遥测和回归测试基础设施，加速首次芯片学习和问题定位。
- 主导从初始芯片到达开始的启动过程，包括主板和系统集成、连接、运行时启用和模型执行。
- 设计压力测试，评估不同工作负载和操作条件下的可靠性、性能和稳定性。
- 将架构规格和性能模型转化为可衡量的验收标准、覆盖率目标和通过/失败信号。
- 调试复杂的软硬件故障，推动根本原因分析，并协调芯片、固件、电气、平台和工作负载团队的修复。
- 验证集成系统是否实现预期功能和模型性能，并将启动经验转化为未来版本可复用的基础设施。
如果你具备以下条件，可能会在这个职位上表现出色：
- 在 C、C++ 等系统编程语言方面有丰富经验
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About the Team
OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform.
About the Role
You will work on the systems software strategy and execution that brings new AI silicon from first power-on to a fully integrated system running production-representative models at expected functionality and performance. You will define how software exercises and validates compute, memory, interconnect, and I/O subsystems, then build the diagnostics, automation, and observability needed to find issues quickly.
This role sits at the center of silicon, firmware, platform, systems, and workload teams. You will turn hardware specifications and performance targets into an end-to-end bringup plan, drive cross-functional debug, and establish the stress and regression infrastructure that makes each new platform reliable across operating environments.
In this role, you will:
- Contribute to the end-to-end software bringup and validation strategy for new silicon and first-party systems.
- Define software-driven test coverage across compute, memory, interconnect, I/O, and their system-level interactions.
- Build diagnostics, test automation, telemetry, and regression infrastructure that accelerate first-silicon learning and issue isolation.
- Lead bringup from initial silicon arrival through board and system integration, docking, runtime enablement, and model execution.
- Design stress tests that characterize reliability, performance, and stability across workloads and operating conditions.
- Translate architecture specifications and performance models into measurable acceptance criteria, coverage goals, and pass/fail signals.
- Debug complex hardware-software failures, drive root-cause analysis, and coordinate fixes across silicon, firmware, electrical, platform, and workload teams.
- Validate that integrated systems deliver expected functionality and model performance, and turn bringup learnings into reusable infrastructure for future generations.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have strong systems programming experience in C, C++, Rust, Python, or comparable low-level environments.
- Have brought up or validated complex silicon, accelerators, servers, or other hardware-software systems.
- Understand computer architecture and the behavior of compute, memory, interconnect, and I/O subsystems.
- Are skilled at low-level debugging across firmware, drivers, operating systems, and hardware interfaces.
- Can create a rigorous test strategy, reason about coverage gaps, and build scalable automation and observability.
- Have experience with performance characterization, stress testing, reliability testing, or production readiness.
- Communicate clearly across disciplines and can drive ambiguous, high-stakes technical work from plan through closure.
- Care deeply about building durable tools and processes that make subsequent bringup cycles faster and more predictable.
To comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements as provided in those laws and regulations.
About OpenAI
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