In a LinkedIn post, Underwood shared his departure, stating, "I have not been successful in my attempt to start an SRE team within the research organization at OpenAI. OpenAI has eliminated the reliability function in research and redistributed the individual contributors into the remaining engineering teams on the research platform organization." He acknowledged that building the reliability function within the company's fast-paced research environment proved challenging.
An anonymous source at OpenAI confirmed that Underwood was the sole member of the new SRE team to be laid off. The decision to disband the team came from Tal Broda, head of the research platform division.
The primary applied SRE team, which predates the research-focused group, will continue its operations under the leadership of Davin Bogan.
This move follows a period of notable turbulence at OpenAI, including the high-profile firing and subsequent rehiring of CEO Sam Altman last year and the recent dissolution of the superalignment safety team.
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