About The Team The Consumer Products Infrastructure team builds and operates the high-performance computing platforms that support product design, simulation, and validation across OpenAI’s consumer-facing hardware and software efforts. We partner closely with product engineers, designers, and applied scientists to ensure fast iteration cycles, predictable performance, and highly available systems that directly impact shipped products.
About The Role We are seeking an experienced HPC Systems Engineer to design, scale, and operate large-scale HPC environments that power simulation-driven product development. These clusters support 1,000+ compute nodes per environment and are used heavily for engineering simulations such as FEA, CFD, multiphysics, and optimization that inform real-world product decisions.
In this role, you will work directly with consumer product and simulation engineers to optimize scheduling, reduce iteration latency, ensure license availability, and maintain highly reliable on-prem and hybrid-cloud HPC systems that accelerate product timelines.
In This Role, You Will
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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