Software Engineer, Collective Communication

7 Hours ago • All levels • $380,000 PA - $555,000 PA
Software Development & Engineering

Job Description

The Workload Networking team is responsible for the collective communication stack used in OpenAI's largest training jobs. This role involves designing and implementing custom networking collectives in C++ and CUDA, tightly integrated into the training stack. The engineer will collaborate with ML researchers to ensure efficient collective operations, optimize network transports for supercomputers, and work on simulations for future network designs, contributing to the advancement of AI research.
Good To Have:
  • Experience with collective communication
  • Written distributed algorithms using RDMA in the past
  • Comfortable writing low level performance sensitive CPU and/or GPU code
  • Familiarity with network simulation techniques
Must Have:
  • Background in low level performance critical software
  • Ability to design and implement efficient collective operations in C++ and CUDA
  • Capability to ensure large training jobs utilize network transports effectively in supercomputers
  • Experience working on simulations for supercomputer network designs
Perks:
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends

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About the Team

The Workload Networking team is responsible for the collective communication stack used in our largest training jobs. Using a combination of C++ and CUDA we work on novel collective communication techniques that enable efficient training of our flagship models on our largest custom built supercomputers.

The models we train are key ingredients to the AI research progress at the field as a whole, and we continually incorporate learnings from our entire research org into our training platform.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer, Networking you will design and implement custom networking collectives that are tightly integrated into our training stack.

We’re looking for people who have a background in low level performance critical software. Experience with collective communication is a bonus.

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.

In this role, you will:

  • Collaborate closely with ML researchers to design and implement efficient collective operations in C++ and CUDA.
  • Ensure that our largest training jobs take full advantage of the different network transports used in our supercomputers.
  • Work on simulations to inform our future supercomputer network designs.

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Have written distributed algorithms using RDMA in the past.
  • Are comfortable writing low level performance sensitive CPU and/or GPU code.
  • Are familiar with network simulation techniques.

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