Software Engineer, TPU Compilers is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $380K - $500K. Posted on Oct 20, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re looking for an engineer to lead the optimization of OpenAI’s state-of-the-art frontier models on TPUs. You will own performance across the full forward pass, from model code through kernels to execution on the hardware. You’ll have broad technical ownership: identifying performance bottlenecks, choosing the most impactful improvements, and carrying them through implementation and validation. We welcome…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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