OpenAI's Hardware organization is seeking a Performance Modeling Lead to build and lead a small team responsible for answering forward-looking architectural questions across AI infrastructure systems.
Requirements
- Have experience owning or building performance modeling frameworks used to drive real system design decisions.
- Have deep knowledge of AI/ML workloads, including training and/or inference at scale.
- Understand system-level tradeoffs across compute, memory, and networking in large-scale distributed systems.
- Are comfortable working across abstraction layers—from workload behavior to hardware implementation.
- Have experience using modeling (analytical or simulation) to inform architectural decisions.
- Can operate in ambiguous problem spaces and turn open-ended questions into structured analysis.
- Communicate clearly and influence both internal teams and external partners.
Benefits
- Relocation Assistance
- Paid Time Off
- Health Insurance
- 401k Matching
