Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build web applications, APIs, data models, and backend services to support AI research workflows.
• Develop tools for authoring and managing evaluation tasks, rubrics, graders, and rollout configurations.
• Automate evaluation runs and generate comprehensive reports for design, research, and engineering teams.
• Support synthetic data generation workflows for multimodal and conversational research.
• Translate research questions into measurable scenarios, automated graders, and human-evaluation campaigns.
• Diagnose and resolve issues across application code, workers, model endpoints, and compute infrastructure.
• Partner with designers, researchers, and infrastructure teams to create high-quality evaluation and data workflows.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack experience across web applications, backend services, APIs, and data models.
• Expertise in generative AI, multimodal models, or model-evaluation systems.
• Proven track record of building effective internal tools for both technical and non-technical users.
• Ability to debug distributed workflows and production infrastructure.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete plans.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in synthetic data generation, simulation, conversational AI, speech, video, or motion.
• Experience with automated graders, human evaluation, supervised fine-tuning, or reinforcement learning.
• Experience operating GPU-backed inference or rollout workloads at a very large scale.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ($293K – $325K) and generous equity.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Flexible PTO and paid parental leave.
• Daily meals in the office and meal delivery credits.
• Annual learning and development stipend.

About the Company

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 AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.