Training Performance Engineer is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $295K - $500K. Posted on Oct 16, 2025, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a Training Performance Engineer, you’ll drive efficiency improvements across our distributed training stack. You’ll analyze large-scale training runs, identify utilization gaps, and design optimizations that push the boundaries of throughput and uptime. This role blends deep systems understanding with practical performance engineering — analyzing GPU kernel performance, collective communication throughput…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
Hiring at OpenAI
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