Systems Engineer in London

About the Team The Platform Systems team at OpenAI operates at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and large-scale distributed systems. We build the engineering and research infrastructure required to train OpenAI’s flagship models on some of the world’s largest, custom-built supercomputers. Our team develops core model training software and works deep in the stack - spanning collective communication, compute efficiency, parallelism strategies, fault tolerance, failure detection, and observability. The systems we build are foundational to OpenAI’s research velocity, enabling reliable, efficient training at frontier scale. We collaborate closely with researchers across the organization, continuously incorporating learnings from across OpenAI into the evolution of our training platform. About the Role As a Software Engineer, Platform Systems, you will design and build distributed systems that provide visibility into large-scale training workloads and help operate them reliably at scale. You’ll work on failure detection, tracing, and observability systems that identify slow or faulty nodes, surface performance bottlenecks, and help engineers understand and optimize massive distributed training jobs. This infrastructure is critical to operating OpenAI’s training stack and is actively evolving to support new use cases and increasingly complex workloads. This role sits at the core of our training infrastructure, blending systems engineering, performance analysis, and large-scale debugging. In This Role, You Will Design and build distributed failure detection, tracing, and profiling systems for large-scale AI training jobs Develop tooling to identify slow, faulty, or misbehaving nodes and provide actionable visibility into system behavior Improve observability, reliability, and performance across OpenAI’s training platform Debug and resolve issues in complex, high-throughput distributed systems Collaborate with systems, infrastructure, and research teams to evolve platform

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! We’re looking for a senior engineer to help build, maintain and evolve the training framework that powers our frontier-scale language models. This role sits at the intersection of large-scale training, distributed systems, and HPC infrastructure. You will design and maintain the core components that enable fast, reliable, and scalable model training — and build the tooling that connects research ideas to thousands of GPUs. If you enjoy working across the full stack of ML systems, this role gives you the opportunity and autonomy to have massive impact. What You’ll Work On Build and own the training framework responsible for large-scale LLM training. Design distributed training abstractions (data/tensor/pipeline parallelism, FSDP/ZeRO strategies, memory management, checkpointing). Improve training throughput and stability on multi-node clusters (e.g., GB200/300, AMD, H200/100). Develop and maintain tooling for monitoring, logging, debugging, and developer ergonomics. Collaborate closely with infra teams to ensure our cluster, container environments, and hardware configurations support high-performance training. Investigate and res

Forward was founded in 2013 by four Stanford Ph.D.s, building the industry's first network digital twin: a mathematically accurate model of the production network. It's the foundation for autonomous networking, giving engineers and AI agents the ability to know the impact of every change before it touches production. That founding instinct still defines how we work. We're accurate and evidence-driven, relentless about clarity, and we'd rather be certain than comfortable, building a groundbreaking platform that transforms how teams run and secure networks across every major cloud and vendor environment. Global leaders like Goldman Sachs, PayPal, S&P Global, IBM, and Dell trust Forward, alongside fast-growing enterprises and government agencies, realizing an average of $14.2 million in annual benefits, according to IDC. Backed by top-tier investors, including A. Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, MSD Partners, Omega Venture Partners, Section 32, and Threshold Ventures, and headquartered in Santa Clara, we're most proud of our team: curious people who'd rather build what doesn't exist than accept how things have always been done. Forward Networks is looking for a Systems (Sales) Engineer Do want to create a category and help build a special company? Do you want to help sell a platform that solves real networking problems? Join a company that has been in market 5+ years and has some of the top Federal agencies and F500/Global 2000 already buying and referenceable. If you have 5-10 years of wildly successful experience as a Sales Engineer selling to large enterprise accounts..you may be the one! We are building a special team and hope you consider us if you want to have the experience of changing the networking world as we know it. Responsibilities: Serve as the primary technical resource for the sales organization working with large enterprise accounts. Work with the sales team as the product advocate and key technical adviser Drive and manage the te

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! About the Role We're seeking a Senior/Staff Engineer to build and maintain the automation infrastructure that powers the development cycles of our North platform. This engineer will design and implement robust automation systems that enable engineers to efficiently test and validate changes across diverse environments and configurations. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure and standards. You'll build the systems, frameworks, and culture that allow the rest of engineering to own quality themselves; improving and extending our testing platform by creating the infrastructure that allows engineers to write and execute tests, and enable every engineering team to ship with more confidence. Key Responsibilities Design and implement automation pipelines that support comprehensive testing across multiple environments with varying feature flags and realistic customer data profiles Create intelligent testing agents that simulate real user behavior to validate different configuration combinations Develop and maintain GitHub workflows and actions to automate testing, deployment, and validation processes Manage and optimize H

SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our X Money team, focused on building a revolutionary global payment network that will serve over 600 million users and rival the world’s largest financial institutions. In this role, you will specialize in backend development, designing and optimizing robust microservices to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. You will support full-stack efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams on payments, fraud detection, and compliance initiatives, and contribute to the creation of a high-scale financial products platform. This is an opportunity to work on greenfield projects in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, driving innovation at the intersection of AI and finance. RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments. Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products. Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms. Build and maintain fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics. Le

SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: As an ideal candidate you have a good understanding of how highly scalable and reliable production infrastructure is built. Most of our backend infrastructure is written in Rust. So familiarity with a compiled language such as C++, Rust, or Go is highly beneficial. RESPONSIBILITIES: Build the SpaceXAI API that serves our models to developers worldwide Own the end-to-end system responsible for high-throughput inference, handling billions of tokens per minute with low latency and high availability, including model serving infrastructure, request routing, SDK development, rate limiting, observability, and efficient scaling BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Expert knowledge of either Rust or C++ Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable and horizontally scalable distributed systems Knowledge of service observability and reliability best practices Experience in operating commonly used databases such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, and MongoDB PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: Experience with LLM inference engines and serving frameworks (e.g., SGLang, TensorRT, vLLM) Experience designing or building with agent SDKs and agent orchestration frameworks Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized applicatio

SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: We’re seeking an exceptional iOS engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world’s most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users. You’ll shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with product brilliance. RESPONSIBILITIES: Dream up and craft delightful, intuitive user experiences that redefine how people interact with AI on mobile. Obsess over every pixel, animation, and interaction, ensuring the experience feels magical and seamless. Build blazing-fast, highly performant systems where every millisecond counts. Drive technical and product decisions, collaborating with AI researchers and engineers to deploy state-of-the-art models globally. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Expert in Swift, with deep knowledge of SwiftUI and UIKit. Proficient in performance optimization—memory, CPU, GPU—using low-level tools to deliver blazing-fast systems. Experienced in designing and shipping intuitive, pixel-perfect mobile UIs that redefine how users interact with AI. Skilled in concurrency and reactive programming (Combine) for responsive, real-time apps. Built high-throughput integrations with APIs (REST, gRPC) or AI model outputs, ensuring seamless data

SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: We're seeking an exceptional Android engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world's most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users. You'll shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with a keen product sense to deliver brilliance that resonates with users. You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Proficient in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and reactive programming. Has a strong product sense and high craft bar. Builds intuitive and delightful user experiences. Experienced in architecting modern large production apps while embodying technical excellence. Strong sense of ownership and agency. Able to put on multiple hats and take responsibility for large areas. Able to optimize for performance, stability and reliability. PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: A proven track record of shipping standout apps or features that demonstrate both technical excellence and exceptional product intuition. Deep expertise in the Android ecosystem and related development tools (Android Studio, Gradle, etc.). Rust for working with our backend components. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: £107,000 - £262,0

About the Team Our London-based team builds the backend systems that help ChatGPT scale reliably. We work on infrastructure close to the product, partnering with engineering teams to improve the performance, resilience, and operability of critical user-facing systems. Our work combines backend software engineering with distributed systems and production reliability. We build shared capabilities, improve high-traffic workflows, and make it easier to introduce new product functionality without compromising performance or availability. About the Role This role is for software engineers who want to build and evolve backend systems operating at significant scale. You’ll write production code, design shared infrastructure, and solve technical challenges involving performance, distributed systems, and system reliability. You’ll also own how those systems behave in production: how changes are rolled out, how issues are detected and diagnosed, and how recurring operational problems can be addressed through better software and system design. This is a strong fit for backend engineers who enjoy complex systems problems and want a direct connection between the infrastructure they build and the experience of ChatGPT users. In this role, you will: Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting high-traffic ChatGPT experiences. Develop shared services, APIs, and infrastructure that help product teams build and launch new capabilities safely. Improve the performance, scalability, and efficiency of production systems as usage and product complexity grow. Build and improve systems for asynchronous processing and other large-scale backend workloads. Lead architectural improvements and infrastructure migrations while maintaining correctness, compatibility, and safe rollout and rollback. Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics to detect problems early and reduce customer impact. Participate in on-call, incident response, and root-cause analysis, and turn operational lea

About the Team The Privacy Engineering team builds secure, reliable systems that help OpenAI meet its legal obligations while protecting user data. We partner closely with Legal and engineering teams across OpenAI to support lawful data access requests and other critical legal workflows. Our work turns complex, high-stakes processes into auditable and dependable technical systems with clear human oversight and strong privacy and security controls. About the Role We’re looking for a full-stack Software Engineer to build the internal tools and data pipelines that power lawful data access request workflows and Legal Operations. You will work across product and data systems to make authorized retrieval and case handling accurate, efficient, and auditable. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys translating ambiguous operational requirements into durable systems, cares deeply about sensitive-data handling, and wants to improve both technical reliability and the day-to-day experience of the people operating these workflows. In this role, you will: Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for the full lifecycle of lawful data access requests, from intake and scoping through authorized retrieval, review, preparation, and audit. Build reliable data pipelines and interfaces across products and data stores so authorized teams can locate and handle the right records accurately and reproducibly. Implement least-privilege access, approval gates, provenance, audit trails, data minimization, and safe failure modes for sensitive workflows. Partner with Legal and Legal Operations to translate legal and operational requirements into clear technical designs and intuitive operator experiences. Identify responsible automation opportunities that reduce repetitive work while preserving human review, judgment, and accountability. Own production systems through testing, observability, incident response, documentation, and continuous reliability improvements. Hel

🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About the role At WRITER, our mission to expand human capacity with superintelligence relies on a foundational truth: our platform must be available, performant, and reliable, 24/7. As an Infrastructure engineer, you'll be at the heart of making this a reality, impacting every enterprise customer who trusts us with their AI-powered workflows. This isn't just about keeping the lights on; it's about pushing the boundaries of what's possible, proactively identifying and solving complex systemic challenges, and laying the groundwork for our rapid growth and the evolving demands of enterprise generative AI. You'll build resilient systems, automate across the stack, and champion reliability best practices, directly enabling our ambitious product roadmap and ensuring our customers always have access to the powerful tools they need. This is a hybrid position, based out of our New York City or London hubs. You'll report to our director of engineering. 🦸🏻‍♀️ What you'll do Technical

About the Team ChatGPT relies on a large and growing GPU fleet to serve inference workloads reliably and efficiently. We develop the systems and tools that make it possible to introduce new models, manage production deployments, respond to operational issues, and use infrastructure effectively at scale. Our work spans distributed systems, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and developer experience. We partner closely with research, infrastructure, and product teams to make model deployment more reliable, more efficient, and easier to manage. About the Role We are looking for a software engineer with experience building or operating large-scale production systems. You will design and develop systems that support the model lifecycle in production, including deployment orchestration, configuration management, operational automation, reliability, and capacity management. You will help transform complex operational processes into scalable platform capabilities that enable teams across OpenAI to deploy and manage models with greater confidence and less manual effort. This role is a good fit for engineers who enjoy solving complex operational problems and building software that makes production infrastructure easier to run at scale. In This Role, You Will Build and evolve the platform used to deploy, configure, and manage models across ChatGPT. Develop systems for deployment orchestration, model rollouts, operational visibility, and production readiness. Create abstractions and tooling that simplify complex infrastructure and improve the developer experience. Automate operational workflows, including incident detection, diagnosis, mitigation, and recovery. Improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of model deployments and the infrastructure that supports them. Build systems that support capacity planning, resource allocation, and infrastructure utilization. Partner with research, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to identify common chal

Here’s a summary of the role: Build cloud software that matters, grow your technical depth, and use modern AI tooling to do your best work. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving product problems, writing clean code, and helping services run reliably at scale. You’ll work on secure, scalable microservices and APIs using TypeScript, AWS , and modern engineering practices. You’ll be part of a collaborative product engineering team where you can own features, contribute to design discussions, support production systems, and keep growing across backend, cloud, and AI-assisted development workflows. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do, not all of it, just the important stuff: Design, build, test, and improve backend services and APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS . Take ownership of well-defined features from planning through release, including code quality, deployment, and production support . Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to turn requirements into practical, reliable solutions. Contribute to technical design conversations, code reviews, and engineering standards that keep the team moving well. Use AI tools to speed up research, coding, debugging, testing, and documentation, while checking outputs carefully and applying sound judgment. Help keep systems secure, observable, and maintainable by improving monitoring, reliability, and day-to-day development practices. These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview: 3 to 5 years of professional software engineering experience building production applications in an agile environment. Strong backend development skills with Node.js and TypeScript, including experience building APIs or microservices. Experience with React or Angular in a product engineering environment. Hands-on experience with

Here’s a summary of the role: Lead a strong engineering team, deliver software that matters, and help people do the best work of their careers. This is a hands-on team management role for someone who enjoys combining people leadership, technical fluency, and modern AI-enabled ways of working to build reliable products at scale. You’ll lead engineers building secure, scalable microservices and APIs using TypeScript and AWS. You’ll partner closely with Product, Security, DevOps, and peer engineering leaders to deliver roadmap outcomes, improve team effectiveness, and create an environment where engineers can grow, own their work, and build high-quality systems with confidence. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do, not all of it, just the important stuff: Lead, coach, and support a team of engineers, creating clarity around priorities, ownership, expectations, and growth goals. Partner with Product, Security, DevOps, and peer engineering leaders to plan and deliver roadmap commitments while balancing quality, pace, and sustainability. Create a healthy delivery environment by improving team processes, removing blockers, supporting planning and estimation, and reinforcing strong engineering practices. Maintain enough technical depth to guide design discussions, challenge risks, review trade-offs, and support the team in building secure and maintainable systems. Use AI tools and encourage responsible AI-assisted ways of working that improve productivity while protecting privacy, security, quality, and good judgment. Support hiring, feedback, performance conversations, and career development so the team continues to grow in capability and confidence. These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview: 8 or more years of software engineering experience, including experience leading projects and supporting or managing engineers in an agile product environment. Experience managing teams that build cloud-native microservices in AWS. Strong people leadership skills, with

About the Team OpenAI’s Applied AI Engineering team helps organizations turn frontier AI capabilities into safe, reliable, and high-impact production systems. We work with customer executives, product and engineering teams, security leaders, and transformation teams to identify valuable opportunities, accelerate technical implementation, and scale what works. Enterprise deployments are defined by complexity rather than any one industry: existing architectures, diverse data environments, security and governance requirements, multiple stakeholder groups, and organization-wide change. We turn lessons from these deployments into better products and reusable patterns for customers everywhere. About the Role As an Applied AI Engineer you will partner directly with leading organizations to design, build, and deploy AI systems that deliver measurable business outcomes. You will combine deep technical judgment, hands-on engineering, and customer leadership to take ambitious ideas from use-case selection and architecture through prototyping, evaluation, production launch, and scale. You will write and debug code, build evaluation systems, resolve complex integrations, and guide decisions involving model behavior, reliability, latency, cost, safety, security, governance, and operational readiness. Success is measured by production systems, sustained adoption, and meaningful customer impact—not simply activity or successful demonstrations. This is a rare opportunity to work on consequential real-world deployments at the frontier of AI while directly influencing how OpenAI’s products evolve. This role is based in London. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees In this role, you will: Partner directly with enterprise customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate them into technical architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and measurable success criteria. Design, build, and deplo