Hardware Development Infrastructure Engineer
About the Team: OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is responsible for building the next generation of AI-native silicon while working closely with software and research partners to co-design hardware tightly integ
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Hardware Development Infrastructure Engineer at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team: OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is responsible for building the next generation of AI-native silicon while working closely with software and research partners to co-design hardware tightly integ
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- Experience operating Slurm or other large-scale cluster schedulers.
- Experience with enterprise authentication and directory services (e.g., Entra ID, LDAP, FreeIPA, SSSD).
- Experience building or operating backend and middleware systems such as message queues, caches, artifact stores, or internal service platforms.
- Familiarity with high-performance storage architectures and data movement optimization.
- Experience running and monitoring license servers for expensive or capacity-constrained toolchains.
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