Hardware / Software CoDesign Engineer - 3P

About the TeamOpenAI'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 integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering production-grade silicon for OpenAI's supercomputing infrastructure, the team also creates custom design tools and methodologies that accelerate innovation and enable hardware optimized specifically for AI.About the RoleAs an Engineer on our hardware optimization and co-design team, you will co-design future hardware from different vendors for programmability and performance. You will work with our kernel, compiler and machine learning engineers to understand their unique needs related to ML techniques, algorithms, numerical approximations, programming expressivity, and compiler optimizations.After collaborating with hardware vendors to develop and influence future hardware architectures towards efficient training and inference on our models, you will evangelize these constraints with various vendors. If you are excited about efficiently distributing a large language model across devices, dealing with and optimizing system-wide/rack-wide networking bottlenecks, and tailoring the compute pipe and memory hierarchy of the hardware platform, simulating workloads at different abstractions, and working closely with our partners, this is the perfect opportunity.This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.Key ResponsibilitiesCo-design future hardware for programmability and performance with our hardware vendorsAssist hardware vendors in developing optimal kernels and add support for it in our compilerDevelop performance estimates for critical kernels for different hardware configurations and drive decisions on compute core and memory hierarchy featuresBuild system performance models at different abstraction levels and carry out analysis to drive decisions on scale up, scale out, and front-end networkingWork with machine learning engineers, kernel engineers and compiler developers to understand their vision and needs from high-performance acceleratorsManage communication and coordination with internal and external partnersInfluence the roadmap of hardware partners to optimize them for OpenAI's workloadsEvaluate potential partners' accelerators and platformsAs the scope of the role and team grows, understand and influence roadmaps for hardware partners for our datacenter networks, racks, and buildingsQualifications4+ years of industry experience, including experience harnessing compute at scale and optimizing ML platform code to run efficiently on target hardwareStrong experience in software/hardware co-designDeep understanding of GPU and/or other AI acceleratorsExperience with CUDA, Triton, or a related accelerator programming languageExperience driving Machine Learning accuracy with low-precision formatsExperience with system performance modeling and analysis to optimize ML model deploymentStrong coding skills in C/C++ and PythonFamiliar with the fundamentals of deep learning computing and chip architecture/microarchitectureAble to actively collaborate with ML engineers, kernel writers, compiler developers, system engineers, chip architects and microarchitectsPreferred SkillsPhD in Computer Science and Engineering with a specialization in Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing, Compilers or other SystemsStrong understanding of LLMs and challenges related to their training and inferenceAbout OpenAIOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.For additional information, please see OpenAI's affirmative action and equal employment opportunity policy statement.OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy PolicyAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.Compensation Range: $342K - $555K#J-18808-Ljbffr