About the Role
In this role, you will:
Architect, build, and deploy the back-end systems and services that power our API products as well as our consumer products
Collaborate closely with product managers, researchers, and the rest of our engineering team to create new products around emerging research capabilities and unsolved customer needs
Iterate rapidly to improve user and developer experience while advancing scalability, performance, observability, and security
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have meaningful experience with building (and rebuilding) production systems to deliver new product capabilities and to handle increasing scale
Care deeply about the end user experience and take pride in building products to solve customer needs
Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
Build tools to accelerate your own (and your teammates’) workflows, but only when off-the-shelf solutions won’t do
Have been a startup founder or an early-stage engineer
Our tech stack
Our APIs are powered by Python, Flask, and OpenAPI. Our infrastructure is built on Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres, and Kafka. While we value experience with these technologies, we are primarily looking for engineers with strong technical skills and the ability to quickly pick up new tools and frameworks.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Compensation, Benefits and Perks
The annual salary range for this role is $200,000 – $370,000. Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
Mental health and wellness support
401(k) plan with 4% matching
Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.