Inference Technical Lead, On-Device Transformers

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Tech Stack

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and select silicon platforms (GPUs, NPUs, and specialized accelerators) for on-device and edge deployment of OpenAI models.
  • Work closely with research teams to co-design model architectures that meet real-world deployment constraints such as latency, memory, power, and bandwidth.
  • Analyze and model system performance, identifying tradeoffs between model design, memory hierarchy, compute throughput, and hardware capabilities.
  • Partner with hardware vendors and internal infrastructure teams to bring up new accelerators and ensure efficient execution of transformer workloads.
  • Build and lead a team of engineers responsible for implementing the low-level inference stack, including kernel development and runtime systems.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance

Culture

Hybrid WorkMission-DrivenCross-Functional TeamsInclusive Hiring

Requirements

Regions: Us

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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