Training - Runtime Foundations Engineer is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $266K - $385K. Posted on Mar 9, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a Training Runtime: Runtime Foundations Engineer, you will work on the software that ties thousands of computers together and exposes them as a unified system. This system has to serve individual researchers running multiple parallel experiments, as well as our largest training runs spanning 100’s of thousands and even millions of machines and accelerators. This requires easy to use, introspectable systems that…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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