Job Overview
Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data Engineer
Date Posted
April 22, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • The Performance Modeling Engineer role at OpenAI supports the development and application of modeling tools to evaluate AI system performance and guide architectural decisions for next-generation infrastructure.
- • Day to day, the engineer will assist in building and maintaining performance models, run simulations and analytical tools, analyze system behavior across compute, memory, networking, and storage, identify bottlenecks, validate models with benchmark data, and collaborate with senior engineers to translate findings into clear recommendations.
- • The team is part of OpenAI’s Hardware organization, which focuses on system and infrastructure solutions for advanced AI workloads, working closely with architecture, infrastructure, and vendor teams to evaluate performance and guide critical design decisions.
- • In this role, the engineer will build technical depth in AI infrastructure, system architecture, and performance analysis, gain hands-on experience with modeling frameworks and simulation tools, and develop skills in cross-functional collaboration and quantitative problem-solving in a high-impact environment.
🎯 Requirements
- • 1–2 years of experience in software engineering, systems modeling, performance analysis, or related technical work
- • Strong programming skills and experience building technical tools, scripts, or frameworks
- • Familiarity with system architecture fundamentals such as compute, memory, and networking
- • Ability to reason about system performance, bottlenecks, and scaling behavior
- • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with comfort working in quantitative environments
- • Ability to learn quickly and work effectively across technical teams
🏖️ Benefits
- • Hybrid work model (3 days in office per week) based in San Francisco, CA
- • Relocation assistance provided
- • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure and hardware/software co-design
- • Mentorship from senior performance modeling engineers and access to advanced modeling frameworks
- • Exposure to large-scale distributed systems, AI/ML workloads, and data center architecture
- • Commitment to equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities
Skills & Technologies
Hybrid
About OpenAI, Inc.
OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Get more remote jobs like this
Subscribe to the weekly newsletter for similar remote roles and curated hiring updates.
Newsletter
Weekly remote jobs and featured talent.
No spam. Only curated remote roles and product updates. You can unsubscribe anytime.
