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Software Engineer – Data Center Simulation
| Company | OpenAI |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $405000 – $490000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in supercomputing, large system modeling, and simulation for mission-critical infrastructure.
- Strong experience in large-scale digital twin development and predictive analytics.
- Proven track record in modeling system development, validation, and verification for data centers or similarly complex environments.
- Expertise in developing backend modeling software and building visualization tools for performance analysis.
- Familiarity with networking, power, cooling, logistics, and data center operations.
- Ability to quickly implement reliable software and analyze complex datasets for optimization.
- Experience integrating simulation tools with real-world operational workflows.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (advanced degrees preferred).
Responsibilities
- Design and develop modeling tools to evaluate data center design, performance, cost, and operational trade-offs from concept to operation phase.
- Build simulation frameworks that generate Bill of Materials (BOMs), validate deliveries, and provide predictive performance/reliability analysis.
- Develop both backend modeling software and intuitive front-end visualization tools to enable data-driven decision-making.
- Integrate simulation models into existing workflows, from concept development to full-scale operations.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure modeling tools align with real-world power, cooling, networking, and logistics constraints.
- Leverage digital twin methodologies to create high-fidelity, predictive models for large-scale data center infrastructure.
- Analyze and back-test predictions, improving accuracy and reliability of performance and cost modeling.
- Think big about system-scale modeling, building solutions that support the next generation of hyper-scale data centers.
Preferred Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in simulation modeling for large-scale data centers.
- Extensive experience in AI-driven modeling, predictive analytics, and automation for mission-critical systems.
- Familiarity with high-performance computing (HPC) environments for simulation workloads.
- Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices, data visualization, and large-scale infrastructure modeling.
