Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems (Sora)
About the Team The Sora team is pioneering multimodal capabilities for OpenAI’s foundation models. We’re a hybrid research and product team focused on integrating multimodal functionalities into our AI products, ensuring they are reliable, user-friendly, and aligned with our mission of broad societal benefit.
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Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems (Sora) 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 The Sora team is pioneering multimodal capabilities for OpenAI’s foundation models. We’re a hybrid research and product team focused on integrating multimodal functionalities into our AI products, ensuring they are reliable, user-friendly, and aligned with our mission of broad societal benefit.
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- Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems such as distributed compute, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure, machine learning infrastructure while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
- Ensure our data platform can scale by orders of magnitude while remaining reliable and efficient
- Partner with researchers to deeply understand requirements and translate them into production-ready systems.
- Harden, optimize, and maintain critical data infrastructure systems that power multimodal training and evaluation.
- Have strong experience with distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure with a strong interest in data.
- Are detail-oriented and bring rigor to building and maintaining reliable systems.
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- Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure systems such as distributed compute, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure, machine learning infrastructure while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
- Ensure our data platform can scale by orders of magnitude while remaining reliable and efficient
- Partner with researchers to deeply understand requirements and translate them into production-ready systems.
- Harden, optimize, and maintain critical data infrastructure systems that power multimodal training and evaluation.
- Have strong experience with distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure with a strong interest in data.
- Are detail-oriented and bring rigor to building and maintaining reliable systems.
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