Training Performance Engineer
About the Team Training Runtime designs the core distributed machine-learning training runtime that powers everything from early research experiments to frontier-scale model runs. With a dual mandate to accelerate researchers and enable frontier scale, we’re building a unified, modular runtime that meets researchers wh
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Training Performance 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 Training Runtime designs the core distributed machine-learning training runtime that powers everything from early research experiments to frontier-scale model runs. With a dual mandate to accelerate researchers and enable frontier scale, we’re building a unified, modular runtime that meets researchers wh
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- Profile end-to-end training runs to identify performance bottlenecks across compute, communication, and storage.
- Optimize GPU utilization and throughput for large-scale distributed model training.
- Collaborate with runtime and systems engineers to improve kernel efficiency, scheduling, and collective communication performance.
- Implement model graph transforms to improve end to end throughput.
- Build tooling to monitor and visualize MFU, throughput, and uptime across clusters.
- Partner with researchers to ensure new model architectures scale efficiently during pre-training.
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