Backend Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build high-impact applications and tools that accelerate OpenAI’s go-to-market efforts
• Work across the full product lifecycle for GTM: prototype, iterate, ship, and maintain
• Embed with Sales, Technical Success, and Revenue Operations to identify user needs and build for them
• Apply OpenAI’s models in novel ways to solve real-world customer and internal workflow problems
• Translate learnings into feedback for Applied and Research teams to inform product development

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a software, ML, or product engineer working on user-facing systems
• Fluency in Python or JavaScript
• Experience building or prototyping LLM-powered workflows using the OpenAI API or similar
• Ability to build full-stack applications
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to move quickly

Preferred Qualifications

• Former founder or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.