ChatGPT Performance Engineer
OpenAI - San Francisco, California, United States, Seattle, Remote - US, New York City
Posted Apr 15, 2026
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- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $116,543 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +9.8% - Much faster than average
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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About this role
ChatGPT Performance Engineer San Francisco, California, United States, Seattle, Remote - US, New York City About the Team We bring OpenAI's technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role OpenAI is looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to help us scale the performance, reliability, and efficiency of our systems. In this role, you'll apply deep technical expertise to optimize infrastructure and application-level performance across mission-critical products like ChatGPT and our developer API. You'll work cross-functionally with teams building core services, training models, and developing real-time user experiences to push our latency, throughput, and cost-efficiency to the next level. We are looking for engineers who thrive in ambiguous environments, value deep systems understanding, and are motivated by delivering measurable impact. This is a highly technical, individual contributor role focused on root-cause analysis, profiling, instrumentation, and architecture-level performance improvements across our stack. In this role, you will: - Analyze and optimize performance across application, middleware, runtime, and infrastructure layers-networking, storage, Python runtime, GPU utilization, and beyond. - Develop tooling and metrics that provide deep observability into system performance. - Collaborate closely with infra, platform, training, and product teams to identify key performance goals and drive systemic improvements. - Influence architecture and design decisions to prioritize latency, throughput, and efficiency at scale. - Lead
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