OpenAI is looking for software engineers to build real-world AI systems that are used by millions of people and developers worldwide, turning cutting-edge AI capabilities into reliable, scalable, and impactful products.
Requirements
- Strong engineering fundamentals, including system design, data structures, and debugging complex systems
- Experience building and maintaining production services or user-facing products at scale
- Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java, or C++
- Comfort working across the stack (backend, frontend, APIs, infrastructure) or willingness to learn new areas quickly
Responsibilities
- Designing, building, and maintaining production systems that power AI-driven products and experiences
- Developing full-stack features, APIs, and internal tools to support applied research and customer-facing use cases
- Partnering closely with research teams to operationalize new model capabilities and rapidly iterate from prototype to production
- Building scalable, reliable services that support high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads
- Optimizing systems for performance, cost, reliability, and security at scale
- Owning projects end-to-end—from initial design through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing iteration
- Helping shape technical direction, engineering best practices, and product roadmaps as the platform evolves
Other
- 7+ years of professional experience as a software engineer (we are flexible for exceptional candidates)
- Experience collaborating in fast-moving, highly cross-functional environments
- A strong sense of ownership and the ability to operate with ambiguity
- We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
- Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law
