ChatGPT Performance Engineer

OpenAI · DevOps

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Full TimeUSD 325k–405k / yrPosted Aug 26, 2026

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AT A GLANCE
Eligibility
Not available
Category
DevOps
Salary
USD 325k–405k / yr
Employment
Full Time
Experience
Senior
Posted
Aug 26, 2026

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OpenAI is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to optimize latency, reliability, and cost-efficiency for ChatGPT and their developer API in a fully remote role based in the USA.

In this individual contributor role, you will analyze and optimize the full stack from application layers to GPU utilization and infrastructure. The position involves collaborating with platform and training teams to establish performance goals, SLAs, and SLOs while driving complex investigations into production issues. You will be responsible for creating observability tooling and influencing architecture to ensure high-scale product performance.

Why You’ll Love This Role

Remote from USA
Salary USD 325k–405k
Senior level role
Focus on ChatGPT and API performance
Highly autonomous position

What You’ll Bring

At least 7 years of software engineering experience
Deep expertise in performance profiling and tracing systems
Strong understanding of OS internals, scheduling, memory management, and IO patterns
Demonstrated success navigating ambiguity and aligning stakeholders
Experience optimizing high-scale distributed systems across application, middleware, or infrastructure layers
Proficiency in Python runtime optimization and GPU utilization.

What You’ll Get

Benefits not specified in the listing

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of AI system capabilities and focus on the safe, responsible deployment of their products globally.

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