By applying to this role, you will be considered for Software Engineer roles across all teams at OpenAI. You may also apply directly to roles on specific teams through OpenAI Careers.

About the Role

We are looking for self-starter engineers with full-stack, production services, or product development experience. 

As a Software Engineer here, you will closely collaborate with our world-class research teams to build and deploy powerful AI systems and products that can perform previously impossible tasks and achieve unprecedented levels of performance.

If you enjoy owning the most important problems end-to-end and have high curiosity and willingness to pick up whatever knowledge that’s missing to get the job done, you will find our work here uniquely challenging and rewarding.

A glance at some of our engineering projects: 

• design, develop, and maintain the tools & infrastructure required for a variety of cutting-edge AI research and consumer projects
• build the systems that power a breadth of production ML use cases
• optimize applications for speed and scale; shape the roadmap for our API and own the development of product experiences end-to-end

We expect you to: 

• Have strong engineering skills, such as system design, creating highly scalable services, front/backend systems, reliability, debugging
• Have proficiency in Python, JavaScript, React, and/or other programming languages
• Have experience driving large-scale projects in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment
• Be interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology (see our Charter for examples of our goals)