# Jobs at OpenAI Open engineering roles at OpenAI. - [Software Engineer, API Frontiers](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-api-frontiers) - Backend software engineer role at OpenAI's API Frontiers team, responsible for designing and operating production APIs that bring frontier AI models to developers. You'll combine distributed systems engineering with product judgment to build reliable, high-performance agent workflows while partnering with research, safety, and product teams. Requires 5+ years of backend services experience, strong distributed systems fundamentals, and proven ability to translate complex capabilities into developer-friendly APIs. - [Developer Experience Engineer, Cyber](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/developer-experience-engineer-cyber) - As a Developer Experience Engineer specializing in Cyber at OpenAI, you will create technical content, developer tools, and sample applications that empower developers and security teams to build and secure software using OpenAI's AI models and cybersecurity capabilities. This role combines strong software engineering skills with developer advocacy, requiring hands-on expertise in AI model integration, application security, and technical content creation. You will own projects end-to-end, from prototype to production, collaborating with product, engineering, and security teams to make secure development workflows seamless and accessible to developers globally. - [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Seattle](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-engineer-fde-seattle-7f4c5eef) - Forward Deployed Engineers at OpenAI lead complex end-to-end production deployments of frontier large language models and generative AI systems alongside strategic customers, owning technical delivery from discovery through stable production rollout. This role requires 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with proven expertise in building and deploying LLM-powered systems, customer-facing technical delivery, and rapid decision-making in ambiguous environments. You will bridge product innovation and customer success, directly shaping OpenAI's model and product roadmaps through field feedback while managing 50% travel and hybrid work in Seattle. - [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - NYC](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-engineer-fde-nyc-9471b38b) - Forward Deployed Engineers at OpenAI lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier AI models in production with strategic customers, owning discovery through rollout while working at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. This role requires 5+ years of engineering experience with proven success deploying production systems in ambiguous environments, strong full-stack coding capabilities in Python or JavaScript, and hands-on expertise with large language models and generative AI systems. You'll partner directly with customer engineering teams, research, and product organizations to measure success through production adoption and feedback that shapes OpenAI's product roadmap. - [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-engineer-fde-sf-967f94aa) - Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenAI leads complex, end-to-end production deployments of frontier AI models with strategic customers, bridging research breakthroughs and real-world applications. This role combines full-stack system design, customer collaboration, and direct technical delivery across multiple concurrent projects. Requires 5+ years of engineering experience with demonstrated expertise in LLM systems, production-grade code, and navigating ambiguous, high-stakes technical environments. - [Full-Stack Software Engineer, Emerging Products](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/full-stack-software-engineer-emerging-products) - Join OpenAI's Emerging Products team as a Full-Stack Software Engineer to design and launch cutting-edge AI-powered products from concept to scale. This senior role combines full-stack development with strong frontend focus, requiring you to navigate ambiguous 0-to-1 projects, make architectural decisions that balance speed and scalability, and collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and research teams in San Francisco's Mission Bay office. - [Engineering Manager, ChatGPT Search Infrastructure](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/engineering-manager-chatgpt-search-infrastructure) - Lead the ChatGPT Search Infrastructure team at OpenAI, responsible for building foundational systems that power search experiences across ChatGPT. This Engineering Manager role requires deep technical expertise in distributed systems, large-scale infrastructure, and AI product development, combined with strong people leadership to manage senior engineers and drive cross-functional collaboration across post-training, product, inference, and infrastructure teams. - [Physical Design Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/physical-design-engineer-forward-deployed-engineering) - Join OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team as a Physical Design Engineer, where you'll leverage deep expertise in semiconductor IC physical design to drive production-grade AI system deployments across the chip design lifecycle. This senior technical role combines hands-on physical design authority with customer-facing delivery, where you'll serve as the physical design subject matter expert for semiconductor deployments while partnering with cross-functional teams to translate frontier AI capabilities into tangible improvements to real-world engineering workflows. You'll help scale high-touch customer engagements into repeatable solution patterns while progressively expanding into broader Forward Deployed Engineering responsibilities including customer discovery, solution architecture, and production deployment ownership. - [Forward Deployed Engineer - Madrid (Spanish-speaking)](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-engineer-madrid-spanish-speaking) - As a Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenAI's Madrid office, you will lead end-to-end production deployments of frontier AI models for strategic customers, bridging the gap between research breakthroughs and real-world impact. This role combines full-stack engineering, customer partnership, and cross-functional collaboration—owning discovery through production rollout while serving Spanish-speaking markets. You'll require 6+ years of engineering experience with demonstrated expertise in deploying complex systems with LLMs or generative models, along with fluency in both Spanish and English. - [Forward Deployed Engineer - London (Spanish-speaking)](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-engineer-london-spanish-speaking) - As a Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenAI's London office, you will lead end-to-end production deployments of frontier AI models with strategic enterprise customers, bridging research breakthroughs and real-world impact. This role demands ownership across discovery, technical architecture, full-stack development, and production rollout while partnering with customer teams and OpenAI's research, product, and platform organizations. You'll combine hands-on engineering expertise with customer advocacy, translating deployment challenges into product improvements and model innovations that shape OpenAI's strategic roadmap. - [Software Engineer, HSM Infrastructure Security, Consumer Devices](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-hsm-infrastructure-security-consumer-devices) - OpenAI seeks a Security Software Engineer to design and implement hardware-backed security foundations across its consumer device ecosystem. This hands-on role focuses on developing security-critical software and firmware for HSMs, secure elements, and trusted execution environments, with emphasis on hardening the policy-to-HSM boundary that controls certificate issuance and cryptographic signing operations. The position requires 5+ years of secure embedded firmware development experience and deep proficiency in C, C++, or Rust, with strong applied cryptography and production systems engineering expertise. - [Full Stack Software Engineer, Product Explorations](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/full-stack-software-engineer-product-explorations) - Join OpenAI's Product Explorations team as a Full Stack Software Engineer to transform cutting-edge AI model capabilities into impactful user experiences. This role offers high autonomy and ownership in a fast-paced, early-stage environment where you'll prototype ideas rapidly, collaborate across research and product teams, and scale the strongest concepts into production. Ideal candidates combine strong full stack engineering expertise with product intuition, thrive in ambiguous environments, and are excited about working at the intersection of AI model capabilities and user-centric product development. - [Product Engineer, Ona](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/product-engineer-ona) - Product Engineer at OpenAI's Ona team, focused on building enterprise-grade infrastructure for AI agents to work reliably in production across secure, customer-controlled cloud environments. You'll design and implement Go-based backend systems, orchestration engines, and security workflows that enable developers and agents to collaborate effectively in parallel. This role requires strong distributed systems knowledge, production backend experience, and a product-oriented mindset to own solutions from customer discovery through launch and operational excellence. - [Systems Test Engineer, End-to-End Validation | Consumer Devices](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/systems-test-engineer-end-to-end-validation-consumer-devices) - Join OpenAI's Consumer Devices team as a Systems Test Engineer specializing in end-to-end validation for next-generation AI hardware products. Design and execute comprehensive system-level testing across hardware, software, cloud services, connectivity, and accessories while building the validation foundation for an entirely new product category. You'll combine hands-on debugging, test automation, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure reliable device experiences that seamlessly integrate complex hardware-software ecosystems. - [Systems Integration Engineer, Build Systems | Consumer Devices](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/systems-integration-engineer-build-systems-consumer-devices-9104a37c) - Join OpenAI's Systems Integration team to design and maintain the build infrastructure and CI systems that power consumer device software deployments. This senior engineering role focuses on Bazel-based builds, Buildkite pipelines, and distributed infrastructure while enabling thousands of developers to ship products rapidly with confidence. You'll own critical developer productivity systems including build caching, test frameworks, and CI automation in a fast-growing organization. - [Software Security Architect, Operating Systems | Consumer Devices](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-security-architect-operating-systems-consumer-devices) - Lead the security architecture for OpenAI's next-generation consumer operating system, defining trust models, privilege boundaries, and hardware-backed protections. This senior, hands-on role combines expertise in operating system internals, hardware security, and AI safety to build secure, privacy-preserving platforms that protect users, devices, and sensitive data. Work cross-functionally with hardware architects, firmware engineers, and product teams to establish foundational platform defenses and guardrails for AI applications. - [Software Engineer, API Safety](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-api-safety) - Join OpenAI's API Safety team as a Senior Software Engineer to design and build critical safeguards for frontier AI models in production. This role bridges safety research and developer experience, requiring expertise in backend systems, distributed architecture, and API design to ensure responsible deployment of transformative AI capabilities at scale. - [Android Systems Engineer, Consumer Devices](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/android-systems-engineer-consumer-devices) - Join OpenAI's Consumer Devices team as an Android Systems Engineer to build the next generation of AI-native mobile experiences. This role requires deep expertise in Android platform architecture, system-level APIs, and device integration to create context-aware experiences that leverage AI across apps and device capabilities. You'll work end-to-end from prototyping to production, collaborating with product, AI, and backend teams to turn emerging AI capabilities into reliable, scalable consumer products. - [Data Engineer, Monetization Data Platform](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/data-engineer-monetization-data-platform) - Join OpenAI's Monetization Data Platform team as a Data Engineer to design and operate large-scale data pipelines that power product usage, billing, payments, and financial data systems. This hands-on role involves building canonical data models, establishing data quality guarantees, and partnering with cross-functional teams across Product Engineering, Finance, and GTM. You'll own end-to-end systems from instrumentation through delivery, working on distributed systems at scale while maintaining a strong focus on data accuracy, observability, and operational excellence. - [Software Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-plugin-developer-platform) - Join OpenAI's Plugin Developer Platform team to build the APIs, SDKs, and tools that power ChatGPT and Codex extensibility. This role focuses on creating developer-friendly platforms, open standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and interactive applications that enable developers to build AI-powered extensions. You'll design and ship platform infrastructure while collaborating directly with developers, partners, and the open-source community to shape how software gets built for AI agents. - [Product Engineer, Full Stack - Agents](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/product-engineer-full-stack-agents) - OpenAI is seeking a Product Engineer, Full Stack to architect and deliver end-to-end product experiences for persistent AI coworkers and agents. This role requires balancing sophisticated frontend development with backend infrastructure to enable reliable, context-aware autonomous workflows. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of full-stack experience building enterprise or product-driven applications and combines technical depth with strong product judgment in fast-moving AI environments. - [Machine Learning Engineer, API Multicloud](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/machine-learning-engineer-api-multicloud) - Join OpenAI's API Multicloud team to build and improve production ML systems that help strategic partners adapt advanced AI models to critical use cases in cloud-native environments. This Machine Learning Engineer role spans post-training workflows, evaluation, data pipelines, model behavior, and infrastructure integration, requiring strong deep learning expertise, large language model fine-tuning experience, and the ability to operate across ambiguous 0→1 problems at the intersection of AI systems, developer platforms, and distributed infrastructure. - [Engineering Manager, Artifacts](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/engineering-manager-artifacts) - Lead and grow the engineering team building OpenAI's AI-native artifact creation platform spanning documents, spreadsheets, slides, dashboards, and emerging work products. This Engineering Manager role combines hands-on technical leadership with team building, requiring expertise in full-stack systems, model integration, and cross-functional collaboration between research, product, and infrastructure teams. - [Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise Technology Vertical](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/principal-software-engineer-enterprise-technology-vertical) - Principal Software Engineer at OpenAI's Enterprise Verticals team, leading the design and delivery of AI-powered enterprise workflows for technology companies. This individual-contributor role combines hands-on full-stack engineering with strategic technical leadership, requiring 10+ years of production software development experience and proven expertise in architecting complex distributed systems, shipping applied AI products, and driving adoption at scale across enterprise customers. - [Tech Lead Manager, Education](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/tech-lead-manager-education) - OpenAI is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead Manager to lead a team of senior full-stack engineers building AI-native learning experiences within ChatGPT's Education platform. This role uniquely combines technical execution, product leadership, and people management, requiring you to architect education-focused features while managing senior engineers and collaborating across research, go-to-market, and product teams. You'll drive strategy and execution for ChatGPT Edu and related education initiatives, translating learning science research into transformative product experiences for students and educators. - [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - NYC](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-engineer-fde-healthcare-nyc) - Join OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team as a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to own end-to-end deployments of production AI systems within healthcare organizations. You'll translate complex payer, provider, and health system workflows into scalable, regulated AI solutions while leading technical discovery, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and productionization. This role requires deep technical expertise in AI system deployment, healthcare interoperability standards, and regulated enterprise environments, with the opportunity to shape repeatable deployment architectures across the healthcare industry. - [Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/senior-staff-software-engineer-identity) - Senior Staff Software Engineer at OpenAI leading the design and evolution of enterprise identity infrastructure serving the organization's growing multi-product portfolio. This hands-on technical leadership role requires owning the complete identity stack architecture including SSO, SCIM, tenant models, and permissions systems while driving organizational alignment and setting security standards for systems serving millions of enterprise users globally. - [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - SF](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-engineer-fde-healthcare-sf) - OpenAI seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to lead end-to-end deployments of production AI systems within healthcare organizations, including payers, providers, and health systems. In this role, you'll translate complex clinical workflows, data infrastructure, and regulatory constraints into scalable AI solutions while collaborating with customer technical teams and internal cross-functional partners. This position requires 6+ years of software engineering or ML/AI deployment experience, healthcare domain knowledge, and a track record of shipping complex enterprise systems in regulated environments. - [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - Seattle](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-engineer-fde-healthcare-seattle) - Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenAI's healthcare division responsible for owning end-to-end deployments of AI systems within regulated healthcare organizations including payers, providers, and health systems. This role bridges customer deployment and core platform development, requiring deep technical expertise in AI/ML, healthcare infrastructure, and regulatory compliance to translate complex workflows into production solutions that drive measurable clinical and operational impact. - [Software Engineer, API Enterprise Controls](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-api-enterprise-controls) - Backend software engineer specializing in enterprise API platform infrastructure at OpenAI. This role requires 9+ years of backend engineering expertise with deep systems knowledge across authentication, identity, streaming systems, and distributed database infrastructure. You'll lead cross-functional initiatives shipping critical enterprise controls capabilities while partnering closely with product, security, and go-to-market teams to build developer-facing APIs that scale securely for enterprises running mission-critical applications on OpenAI's infrastructure. - [Software Engineer, Monetization Data Systems](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-monetization-data-systems) - The Monetization Data Systems team at OpenAI seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and operate reliable, scalable backend systems powering pricing, billing, ads, payments, and entitlements. This hands-on role requires 7+ years of production systems experience with deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, API design, and financial data integrity to enable product teams to launch and iterate on monetization products securely and efficiently. - [Software Engineer, API Multimodal](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-api-multimodal) - Join OpenAI's API Multimodal team to design and operate high-scale, low-latency developer-facing APIs powering image generation, speech transcription, and real-time voice interactions. This role combines backend engineering excellence with systems depth to transform frontier AI capabilities into reliable, production-grade experiences for millions of developers worldwide. You'll partner directly with researchers to integrate cutting-edge multimodal models while owning availability, scalability, and performance across distributed systems at unprecedented scale. - [Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer - Tokyo](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/manager-forward-deployed-engineer-tokyo) - Lead OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team in Tokyo as a foundational manager, directing the deployment of frontier AI models into production systems while bridging customer needs with core platform development. This role requires 8+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years managing high-performing customer-facing technical teams, bilingual fluency in Japanese and English, and the ability to make sound technical decisions under high-pressure, ambiguous conditions. You'll own end-to-end delivery outcomes, translate field insights into product roadmap inputs, and scale field operations while maintaining technical excellence and team growth. - [Engineering Manager, Model Flywheel](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/engineering-manager-model-flywheel) - Lead engineering excellence for OpenAI's ChatGPT Model Capabilities and Deployment team as an Engineering Manager, overseeing model experimentation, safe deployment automation, and comprehensive measurement systems. This role demands proven experience building and scaling production systems at enterprise scale, with deep expertise in large language model deployment lifecycle, distributed infrastructure, and cross-functional stakeholder management. You'll drive critical technical initiatives that directly impact millions of users while shaping the future of AI safety, reliability, and user experience. - [Software Engineer, Codex -Enterprise Controls](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-codex-enterprise-controls) - As a Software Engineer on the Codex Enterprise Controls team at OpenAI, you'll design and operate backend systems that enable enterprises to safely deploy and govern AI-powered coding capabilities at scale. This role requires strong expertise in backend engineering, security architecture, identity systems, and enterprise infrastructure—with end-to-end ownership of systems spanning encryption, access controls, policy enforcement, and audit logging for some of the world's most sensitive codebases and organizational data. - [Software Engineer, Codex — User Activation](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-codex-user-activation) - Join OpenAI's Codex team as a Full Stack Software Engineer focused on User Activation, where you'll build the product experiences that drive adoption of an AI software engineering teammate across enterprises. This role combines frontend polish with robust backend architecture to create onboarding, discovery, collaboration, and activation surfaces that help developers and teams seamlessly integrate Codex into their workflows. You'll work across the full development stack—web, IDEs, CLI, and integrations—partnering with product, design, research, and customers to transform adoption challenges into scalable, data-driven solutions. - [Software Engineer, ChatGPT Shopping](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-chatgpt-shopping) - Join OpenAI's ChatGPT Shopping team as a full stack product engineer to build next-generation consumer AI experiences. You'll design end-to-end product features combining advanced language models, multimodal AI capabilities, and intuitive interfaces for millions of users. This role requires strong full stack development expertise with proven experience shipping consumer products rapidly while maintaining engineering excellence. - [Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure- ChatGPT Engineering](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-gpu-infrastructure-chatgpt-engineering) - Join OpenAI's ChatGPT Engineering team to design and operate GPU infrastructure powering one of the world's largest AI products. This role offers the opportunity to build scalable systems managing thousands of GPUs, develop intelligent automation tooling, and directly impact AGI development through infrastructure improvements. You'll work across production engineering, distributed systems, and capacity management with 5+ years of production infrastructure experience and expertise in systems languages, Kubernetes, and distributed systems design. - [Software Engineer, Codex Security](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-codex-security) - Join OpenAI's Codex Cyber team to build AI-native application security products that help organizations discover, validate, and remediate real vulnerabilities in software systems. This full-stack role combines product development, backend services, cloud infrastructure, and security analysis pipelines to create the next generation of intelligent vulnerability detection and remediation tools. You'll work as a high-agency software engineer with strong fundamentals across multiple domains, translating complex security research and AI capabilities into intuitive workflows for technical users in a fast-moving, early-stage team. - [Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/full-stack-software-engineer-api-experience) - Join OpenAI's API Experience team to build the next generation of developer-facing products that serve millions of developers worldwide. As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you'll own end-to-end projects spanning frontend product surfaces, backend systems, SDK pipelines, and API workflows while collaborating with product, design, and research teams to make complex AI capabilities simple and safe to deploy. This role requires 5+ years of production engineering experience with strong TypeScript and React expertise, backend proficiency, and demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous developer problems into elegant product solutions. - [Engineering Manager, MLE](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/engineering-manager-mle) - Lead OpenAI's Integrity team as an Engineering Manager specializing in machine learning, overseeing the design and deployment of advanced ML models that detect content abuse and prevent scaled attacks on our platforms. This role combines hands-on machine learning expertise with people leadership, requiring deep knowledge of LLM training, transformer architectures, and large-scale ML system deployment to safeguard user experience and platform stability. You'll mentor engineering talent, collaborate with researchers and product teams, and drive technical strategy for mission-critical safety and trust systems. - [Forward Deployed Engineer - Seoul](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-engineer-seoul) - Forward Deployed Engineers at OpenAI lead end-to-end production deployments of frontier large language models and generative AI systems for strategic customers, operating at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. This role combines technical architecture, full-stack development, and customer partnership to transform research breakthroughs into measurable business impact, requiring 5+ years of engineering experience with production-grade code proficiency in Python, JavaScript, and LLM systems. You'll own discovery through production rollout while embedding deeply with customer teams to gather field feedback that informs product and model improvements across OpenAI's platform. - [Full Stack Software Engineer, Agent Enablement](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/full-stack-software-engineer-agent-enablement) - OpenAI is seeking an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer for its Agent Enablement team, focusing on developing innovative protocols and user experiences for an open AI agent ecosystem. The role involves designing cutting-edge technologies that enable intelligent agent interactions across web, desktop, and mobile platforms, with a strong emphasis on impact-driven engineering and ecosystem growth. - [System Power Engineer, Consumer Devices](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/system-power-engineer-consumer-devices) - OpenAI is seeking a highly skilled System Power Engineer to optimize power consumption and efficiency for cutting-edge AI-powered consumer devices. The role involves developing sophisticated power testing methodologies, collaborating across engineering teams, and driving improvements in battery life, thermal performance, and system reliability for next-generation hardware products. - [System Performance Engineer, Consumer Devices](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/system-performance-engineer-consumer-devices) - OpenAI seeks a System Performance Engineer to profile, benchmark, and optimize performance across embedded hardware products for consumer devices powered by artificial intelligence. This role combines deep embedded systems expertise with performance engineering rigor, requiring proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Rust alongside hands-on debugging experience under tight latency, power, and memory constraints. You will establish performance standards, build diagnostic tooling, and drive optimizations across operating systems, applications, graphics, and platform teams from lab characterization through real-world product lifecycle management. - [Software Engineer, Computer Use & Frontier Interfaces](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-computer-use-frontier-interfaces) - OpenAI is seeking an exceptional Software Engineer to join their Computer Use and New Interfaces team, focusing on pioneering next-generation AI-native interfaces. The ideal candidate will collaborate across engineering, product, and design to develop innovative interaction paradigms that unlock AI's full potential, working in a highly experimental and design-driven environment. - [Software Engineer, Private Computing](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-private-computing) - OpenAI's Private Computing team is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to design and implement cutting-edge privacy technologies across their product ecosystem, focusing on advanced security features for ChatGPT, API, and future consumer devices using confidential computing and end-to-end encryption. - [Full Stack Software Engineer, Codex](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/full-stack-software-engineer-codex) - OpenAI is seeking an exceptional Full Stack Software Engineer for its Codex team to revolutionize software development workflows through AI-powered tools. The role focuses on creating innovative developer experiences that span frontend, backend, and AI agent design, with a mission to transform how software is built in the AI era. - [Software Engineer, Web Layer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-web-layer) - OpenAI is seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer for the Codex Web Layer team, focusing on developing a sophisticated hybrid web browser application. The ideal candidate will design and implement complex web infrastructure across macOS and Windows, working closely with product and design teams to create innovative browsing features using low-level system integration and advanced interaction design. - [Backend Software Engineer, API Multicloud](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/backend-software-engineer-api-multicloud) - OpenAI is seeking a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer for their API Multicloud team, focusing on extending the OpenAI API platform across cloud environments. The ideal candidate will build backend services, cloud infrastructure, and developer tools that enable AI capabilities across multiple cloud platforms, with a strong emphasis on innovation, scalability, and cross-team collaboration. - [Full Stack Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/full-stack-software-engineer-chatgpt-imagegen) - OpenAI is seeking an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer to join the ChatGPT Image Generation team, focusing on developing innovative AI-powered visual creation tools. The ideal candidate will work across frontend and backend systems to build intuitive, scalable image generation experiences that transform how users create and interact with visual content. - [Software Engineer, Cloud Agents](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-cloud-agents) - OpenAI is seeking an experienced Software Engineer for its Cloud Agents team to design and scale advanced cloud agent infrastructure. The role focuses on building robust, secure, and scalable platforms that enable product engineers to develop cutting-edge AI technologies across ChatGPT, API, and Codex products. - [Analytics Engineer, Safety Systems](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/analytics-engineer-safety-systems) - As an Analytics Engineer in OpenAI's Safety Systems team, you'll architect data-centric solutions that enable safe AI deployment by designing canonical datasets, developing intuitive dashboards and reports, and partnering with engineering and research teams to transform complex safety metrics into actionable insights. This role requires 5+ years of analytics experience with expert-level SQL proficiency, BI tool mastery, and a proven track record of owning high-impact data initiatives that drive strategic decision-making across technical and executive stakeholders in a hybrid San Francisco environment. - [Technical Lead Manager, Data Engineering, Trust & Safety](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/technical-lead-manager-data-engineering-trust-safety) - OpenAI is seeking a Technical Lead Manager for their Trust & Safety Data Engineering team, responsible for building robust data foundations to detect, investigate, and mitigate abuse and safety risks across AI products. The role requires a hands-on technical leader who can strategically develop data systems, drive execution, and create privacy-safe, scalable data pipelines for advanced AI safety monitoring. - [Software Engineer, Full Stack - Cybersecurity Products](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-full-stack-cybersecurity-products) - OpenAI's Cybersecurity Products team is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to build advanced AI-powered security tools that help engineering teams discover, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities. The ideal candidate will develop end-to-end workflows and backend services that transform complex security insights into actionable, user-friendly product experiences. - [Software Engineer, Monetization ML Infrastructure](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-monetization-ml-infrastructure) - OpenAI is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to develop cutting-edge machine learning infrastructure for monetization and advertising systems. The role involves designing scalable, high-performance platforms that support the entire ML lifecycle, from data processing to model deployment, while maintaining strict standards for reliability, privacy, and performance. - [Software Engineer, Ads Manager](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-ads-manager) - OpenAI is seeking an experienced Software Engineer for its Monetization team to build and scale the Ads Manager platform. The role involves designing innovative advertiser-facing APIs, tools, and self-serve workflows that support OpenAI's responsible monetization strategy across small, mid-sized, and enterprise advertisers. - [Software Engineer, Ad Formats](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-ad-formats) - Software Engineer, Ad Formats at OpenAI's Monetization team is a foundational engineering role focused on building the creative rendering and presentation layer of OpenAI's ads ecosystem. You'll design and scale infrastructure for ad formats spanning text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive experiences while ensuring reliable performance, privacy compliance, and seamless integration with the ChatGPT platform. This is a 0→1 greenfield opportunity requiring 7+ years of experience architecting high-scale consumer products, creative systems, or platform infrastructure, with strong proficiency in full-stack distributed systems and demonstrated excellence in shipping user-facing experiences at scale. - [Release Engineer | Consumer Devices](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/release-engineer-consumer-devices) - The Release Engineer role at OpenAI's Consumer Devices team focuses on designing, building, and operating release infrastructure for reliable, secure, and traceable software delivery across complex multi-component systems including bootloaders, firmware, operating systems, and cloud services. You'll partner with embedded, cloud, and QA teams to enable fast, verifiable, and production-ready builds while managing CI/CD pipelines, OTA deployment strategies, security hardening, and fleet telemetry at scale. This position requires expertise in build automation, embedded systems delivery, reproducible toolchains, and metrics-driven continuous improvement for hardware-software integration. - [Software Engineer, Quality & Developer Tools | Consumer Devices](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-quality-developer-tools-consumer-devices) - Join OpenAI's Systems Integration team as a Software Engineer focused on Quality and Developer Tools for consumer devices. You'll design and own test frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, hardware-in-the-loop labs, and automation systems that validate device software at scale. This role requires deep expertise in software quality, test automation, developer tooling, and hardware-software integration, with strong proficiency in Python, C, C++, or Rust and Linux fundamentals. - [AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/ai-systems-engineer-codex-agents) - OpenAI is seeking a highly skilled AI Systems Engineer for the Codex Core Agents team, focusing on building advanced agent harness systems that transform AI model capabilities into actionable real-world solutions. The ideal candidate will work across multiple technical layers, from low-level systems to ML workflows, to enhance the reliability, safety, and performance of AI agents. - [Senior Data Engineer, Core Experimentation](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/senior-data-engineer-core-experimentation) - OpenAI is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for its Core Experimentation team to design and manage critical data pipelines that power product development, analytics, and decision-making across the organization. The ideal candidate will build robust data infrastructure, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to OpenAI's mission of developing responsible AI technologies. - [Backend Software Engineer, Applied Foundations](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/backend-software-engineer-applied-foundations) - OpenAI is seeking a Backend Software Engineer for its Applied Foundations team, responsible for building core product and platform layers that power critical AI applications like ChatGPT. The role involves designing scalable, secure backend systems that support global-scale AI product infrastructure with a focus on performance, reliability, and safety. - [Full-Stack Software Engineer, Applied Foundations](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/full-stack-software-engineer-applied-foundations) - OpenAI is seeking a Full-Stack Software Engineer for their Applied Foundations team, responsible for building core product and platform layers that power transformative AI applications like ChatGPT. The ideal candidate will architect resilient, secure systems across frontend and backend, collaborating to deliver innovative AI technologies at global scale. - [Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/protection-scientist-engineer-integrity) - OpenAI is seeking a Protection Scientist Engineer to join their Integrity and Investigations team, focusing on proactively identifying and mitigating potential abuses of AI products. The role involves designing sophisticated monitoring systems, investigating critical escalations, and developing robust safety mechanisms to ensure responsible AI deployment. - [Forward Deployed Engineer - Singapore](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-engineer-singapore) - Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenAI leads end-to-end production deployments of frontier AI models alongside strategic customers in Singapore. This role combines customer-facing engineering with core platform development, requiring 5+ years of experience building production systems, full-stack development expertise (Python, JavaScript), and hands-on experience with LLM-powered applications. You'll own technical delivery from discovery through rollout, drive product impact through field feedback, and bridge customer needs with OpenAI's research and product teams. - [Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-chatgpt-infrastructure) - OpenAI is seeking Senior and Staff Software Engineers to build critical infrastructure systems for ChatGPT, focusing on creating high-performance, scalable, and reliable platforms that enable rapid product iteration. The role involves designing core abstractions, developing tooling, and creating infrastructure that supports the complex and dynamic ecosystem of ChatGPT's technology stack. - [Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API)](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/engineering-manager-multimodal-api) - Lead a high-impact engineering team responsible for OpenAI's multimodal API product suite, including real-time APIs, speech transcription (Whisper), text-to-speech generation (TTS), and image creation (DALLE, GPT-4o). This role combines technical leadership with strategic product ownership, requiring deep expertise in AI systems, API scalability, and team management to drive innovation across audio, video, and image modalities serving millions of developers globally. - [Full Stack Software Engineer, OpenAI Edu](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/full-stack-software-engineer-openai-edu) - OpenAI's Education team is seeking a product-driven Full Stack Software Engineer to develop innovative AI-powered educational products. The ideal candidate will own end-to-end development across the stack, collaborating closely with learning scientists, designers, and researchers to create transformative learning experiences that leverage cutting-edge AI technology. - [ChatGPT Performance Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/chatgpt-performance-engineer) - OpenAI is seeking an experienced Performance Engineer to optimize the performance, reliability, and efficiency of mission-critical systems powering ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. This highly technical individual contributor role requires deep expertise in systems optimization, performance profiling, and distributed systems scaling. You'll work cross-functionally to drive latency, throughput, and cost-efficiency improvements across the entire technology stack, from GPU utilization to networking and application runtime optimization. - [Software Engineer, Codex Core Agents](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-codex-core-agents) - OpenAI's Codex Core Agents team is seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to develop critical infrastructure for AI agent systems. The role focuses on building robust, scalable execution environments that enable safe, efficient, and intelligent code generation and agent interactions at the cutting edge of AI technology. - [Applied AI Engineer, Codex Core Agent](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/applied-ai-engineer-codex-core-agent) - OpenAI is seeking an Applied AI Engineer for the Codex Core Agent team, focusing on transforming cutting-edge AI research into practical, reliable software engineering tools. The ideal candidate will work on improving AI agent performance, developing robust systems, and bridging the gap between research capabilities and real-world usability. - [Engineering Manager, Distillation & Dectection Platform](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/engineering-manager-distillation-dectection-platform) - OpenAI is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a critical team developing advanced detection and prevention systems for AI model misuse. The role focuses on building scalable software systems that protect frontier AI models by detecting potential risks, mitigating potential threats, and ensuring the integrity of AI technologies at a global scale. - [Software Engineer, Infrastructure Reliability](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-infrastructure-reliability-621bb104) - OpenAI is seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer for its Infrastructure Reliability team in San Francisco, responsible for scaling and hardening critical infrastructure that powers cutting-edge AI systems like ChatGPT. The role focuses on designing, building, and operating reliable, performant, and secure distributed systems at global scale. - [Software Engineer, Localization](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-localization) - OpenAI's Internationalization team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build critical infrastructure that enables global product localization and international launches. The role focuses on developing AI-powered translation pipelines, internationalization libraries, and tools that support seamless multilingual user experiences across OpenAI's product ecosystem. - [Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/senior-software-engineer-infrastructure) - OpenAI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Statsig Infrastructure team in Bellevue, Washington. The role focuses on designing and scaling critical experimentation and analytics infrastructure that supports OpenAI's product development ecosystem, with a strong emphasis on building high-performance, low-latency distributed systems. - [Machine Learning Engineer, Integrity](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/machine-learning-engineer-integrity) - OpenAI's Integrity Machine Learning Engineer role focuses on developing cutting-edge AI models to defend against adversarial threats and ensure platform security. The position requires advanced machine learning expertise to deploy state-of-the-art models that protect and improve AI system integrity across various applications. - [Senior Software Engineer, Product](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/senior-software-engineer-product) - OpenAI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Statsig team in Bellevue, WA, to design and build core experimentation and rollout infrastructure. The ideal candidate will develop advanced systems for feature management and progressive deployments, enabling safe and rapid product innovation across OpenAI's diverse engineering teams. - [Engineering Manager, Online Data Systems](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/engineering-manager-online-data-systems) - OpenAI is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Online Data Systems team, responsible for building and operating hyperscale database and indexing services that power ChatGPT and other AI applications. This role involves managing world-class engineers working on distributed query execution, multi-region federation, and self-healing systems at exabyte scale. - [Software Engineer, Delivery / CD](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-delivery-cd) - OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer for their Delivery/CD team to build and operate continuous deployment systems that safely ship infrastructure and product code to production. This role focuses on creating deployment platforms, release pipelines, and rollout safety mechanisms to enable rapid, low-risk deployments across dozens of Kubernetes clusters and global regions. - [Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Seattle](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-software-engineer-seattle) - OpenAI's Forward Deployed Software Engineers partner with strategic enterprise customers to design, architect, and implement full-stack AI-powered solutions that solve complex business challenges using OpenAI's APIs and platform capabilities. This role requires 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience with a proven track record of customer-facing technical leadership, delivering production systems through iterative development cycles at the intersection of customer success and core platform innovation. - [Software Engineer, Observability](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-observability) - OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer for their Observability team to build large-scale monitoring and AI-powered debugging tools. This role involves developing infrastructure to handle petabytes of logs and billions of metrics while creating intelligent systems that help engineers detect and resolve issues autonomously. The position requires expertise in distributed systems, full-stack development, and experience with observability technologies. - [Android Engineer, Monetization](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/android-engineer-monetization) - OpenAI's Monetization team seeks a Senior Android Engineer to build foundational mobile experiences for user onboarding, account management, payments, and monetization systems. This greenfield role involves developing reusable Android frameworks and integrations that support OpenAI's mobile ecosystem at global scale, requiring expertise in Kotlin, Android architecture, and commerce systems. - [Full Stack Software Engineer, Growth](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/full-stack-software-engineer-growth) - OpenAI's ChatGPT Growth team seeks a Full Stack Software Engineer to drive user acquisition and retention through high-impact growth initiatives, including account optimization, SEO, and viral features. This role combines data analysis, product ideation, and full-stack development to scale ChatGPT's global user base while working across research, product, design, and data science teams. - [Android Engineer, Applied Foundations](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/android-engineer-applied-foundations) - OpenAI's Applied Foundations team is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to build core mobile experiences for identity, payments, safety, and user account management across their AI products. The role involves creating reusable Android foundations while working with cutting-edge AI technologies at global scale. - [Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/backend-engineer-consumer-devices) - OpenAI is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and build scalable, secure backend systems for Consumer Devices, working with Python and Go in a hybrid San Francisco environment. This role requires 7+ years of backend experience and involves architecting high-performance systems that support evolving product needs from hardware to cloud infrastructure. - [iOS Engineer, Applied Foundations](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/ios-engineer-applied-foundations) - OpenAI is seeking a Senior iOS Engineer to join their Applied Foundations team, building core mobile experiences for millions of users across identity, payments, and safety systems. The role involves architecting reusable iOS frameworks, optimizing performance at global scale, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered mobile experiences with the highest standards for security and reliability. - [Full Stack Engineer, Health AI](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/full-stack-engineer-health-ai) - A Full Stack Engineer role at OpenAI's Health AI team focused on building scalable health technology systems that expand access to medical expertise globally. The position involves developing consumer and enterprise health products while maintaining strict privacy, security, and compliance requirements including HIPAA, working closely with product, design, and research teams in a fast-moving environment. - [Software Engineer, Codex for Teams](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-codex-for-teams) - OpenAI's Codex for Teams is seeking a Software Engineer to build enterprise-grade AI coding tools that transform Codex from an individual tool into a production teammate for organizations. The role involves building platform capabilities, enterprise integrations, and working directly with customers to scale AI-powered software engineering across teams and enterprises. - [Software Engineer, Monetization Product & Platform (SF/Seattle)](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-monetization-product-platform-sf-seattle) - OpenAI is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join their new Monetization team, building foundational infrastructure and APIs for next-generation monetization and ads systems at global scale. This is a 0→1 greenfield role requiring 7+ years of experience in high-scale distributed systems, working closely with Product, Design, and Research teams to architect privacy-preserving, user-first monetization solutions. - [Camera Firmware Engineer, Consumer Products](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/camera-firmware-engineer-consumer-products) - OpenAI's Consumer Products team is seeking a Camera Firmware Engineer to develop low-level camera systems for AI-powered hardware products. The role involves bringing up camera sensors on custom hardware, developing firmware drivers, and building reliable capture pipelines from prototype to production deployment in San Francisco. - [Embedded SWE, Consumer Devices](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/embedded-swe-consumer-devices) - OpenAI's Embedded Software Engineering team is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to build reliable, high-performance systems on custom hardware for consumer devices. The role involves designing and debugging embedded software, working closely with hardware teams, and optimizing for memory, power, and latency constraints in production-ready systems. - [System Software Engineer, Consumer Devices](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/system-software-engineer-consumer-devices) - OpenAI is seeking a System Software Engineer to build foundational platform software for consumer devices, working across operating system layers to deliver reliable, secure, and performant products from kernel to user space with focus on performance optimization and system debugging. - [Software Engineer, Monetization Infrastructure (SF/Seattle)](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-monetization-infrastructure-sf-seattle) - OpenAI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build foundational infrastructure for their new Monetization team, developing privacy-preserving ads and monetization systems. This role requires 10+ years of distributed systems experience and involves architecting scalable backend infrastructure, APIs, and internal platforms to support ads creation, delivery, and optimization at global scale. The position is based in San Francisco or Seattle with competitive compensation and equity. - [Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-software-engineer-nyc) - OpenAI is seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer in NYC to design and deploy full-stack solutions leveraging OpenAI's APIs for strategic enterprise customers. This senior-level role combines software engineering expertise with customer-facing collaboration, requiring 7+ years of full-stack development experience and a proven ability to translate complex business challenges into scalable, production-ready systems while working hands-on with customer technical teams. - [Forward Deployed Software Engineer - SF](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-software-engineer-sf) - OpenAI's Forward Deployed Software Engineer role is a senior full-stack engineering position that partners directly with enterprise customers to architect and implement production-scale solutions leveraging OpenAI's APIs. This customer-facing role requires 7+ years of professional engineering experience, deep full-stack expertise, and the ability to embed with clients to transform complex business challenges into scalable technical implementations while collaborating across product, research, and sales teams. - [Software Engineer - Privacy & Compliance](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-privacy-compliance) - OpenAI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Privacy & Compliance to architect and build backend systems that enforce data privacy and automate compliance at scale. This high-impact role involves designing distributed authorization mechanisms, implementing policy-driven data access controls, and partnering with cross-functional teams to embed privacy-by-design principles into AI infrastructure. The position requires 5+ years of backend systems experience with expertise in distributed authorization, privacy regulations, and scalable technical design. - [Software Engineer, Reliability](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-reliability) - OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer, Reliability to join their Applied Engineering team in building scalable, resilient infrastructure that safely delivers AI technology to millions of users worldwide. This role focuses on designing fault-tolerant systems, implementing automation tools, and maintaining reliability standards while supporting OpenAI's rapid growth in the competitive AI landscape. - [Connectivity Software Engineer](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/connectivity-software-engineer) - OpenAI is seeking a Connectivity Software Engineer to design and optimize wireless connectivity features across their product ecosystem. This role involves working with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and emerging wireless technologies at the systems level, focusing on kernel drivers, network protocols, and real-world performance optimization. The position requires deep Linux systems expertise and proven experience shipping wireless connectivity solutions. - [Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/protection-scientist-engineer-integrity-3fefc615) - OpenAI is seeking a Protection Scientist Engineer for their Integrity and Investigations team in London, focusing on proactively identifying and mitigating AI product abuse. The role involves developing sophisticated monitoring systems, investigating critical escalations, and building robust safety mechanisms to protect AI product integrity across various platforms. - [Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-cloud-infrastructure) - OpenAI is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join their Applications Engineering team in London, responsible for building and maintaining the core infrastructure that powers ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. The role requires 5+ years of infrastructure experience with Kubernetes at scale and expertise in cloud platform abstractions. - [Forward Deployed Engineer - Tokyo](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/forward-deployed-engineer-tokyo) - As a Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenAI's Tokyo office, you'll lead end-to-end production deployments of frontier AI models alongside strategic customers, bridging research breakthroughs with real-world business impact. This role demands ownership of discovery, technical scoping, system design, implementation, and production rollout while working cross-functionally with product, research, and customer teams. You'll need 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with proven customer-facing delivery skills, fluency in both Japanese and English, and expertise in building LLM-powered systems in ambiguous, high-stakes environments. - [Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-cloud-infrastructure-12342ebb) - OpenAI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Cloud Infrastructure team, responsible for building and maintaining the core infrastructure that powers ChatGPT and their API services. The role involves designing scalable Kubernetes-based platforms, cloud abstractions, and ensuring infrastructure can handle massive scale while maintaining reliability and security standards. - [Software Engineer, Database Systems](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-database-systems) - OpenAI's Database Systems team is seeking a senior software engineer to work on Rockset, their high-performance real-time search, analytics, and vector database that powers vector search and RAG across all OpenAI products. The role involves building distributed systems, performance optimization in C++, and scaling database infrastructure for exponential growth. - [Software Engineer, Core Services](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-core-services) - A Senior Software Engineer role at OpenAI's Core Services team building foundational infrastructure services including caching systems, workflow orchestration, and distributed metadata stores that serve as the backbone for OpenAI's AI products. The role focuses on designing highly reliable, scalable backend platforms using technologies like Redis, FoundationDB, and Temporal in San Francisco with a hybrid work model. - [Software Engineer, Caching Infrastructure](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-caching-infrastructure) - OpenAI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale their multi-tenant caching infrastructure that powers ChatGPT, APIs, and other AI products. The role involves building high-availability distributed caching systems using Redis/Memcached and Kubernetes to support inference, identity, and product experiences across OpenAI's platform. - [Software Engineer, Online Storage](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-online-storage-460b4295) - OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer for their Online Storage team to build high-performance database systems serving hundreds of millions of users across ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI APIs. The role requires 4+ years of experience with distributed systems, systems programming expertise in C++ or Python, and hands-on experience with multi-threading and concurrency for large-scale infrastructure development. - [Software Engineer, Developer Productivity](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-developer-productivity) - OpenAI's Engineering Acceleration team is seeking a Software Engineer for Developer Productivity to design and build foundational systems that accelerate engineering velocity across ChatGPT and API development. This role involves leveraging cutting-edge AI tools to revolutionize developer productivity while working with large-scale GPU infrastructure and modern cloud technologies. - [Software Engineer, Youth Well-Being](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-youth-well-being) - OpenAI's Youth Well-Being team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build foundational systems ensuring safe, age-appropriate AI experiences for families and teens across products like ChatGPT. This high-impact, 0→1 opportunity involves architecting identity infrastructure, age assurance pipelines, and guardian tools while ensuring regulatory compliance and ethical AI deployment at consumer scale. - [Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-data-infrastructure) - OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer for Data Infrastructure to build and operate large-scale data platforms powering their AI products and research. You'll work with massive Spark compute fleets, streaming systems, and exabyte-scale architecture while ensuring reliable, secure data access for machine learning and analytics workflows. - [Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/software-engineer-integrity-foundations) - OpenAI's Applied Foundations team is seeking a Software Engineer for Integrity Foundations to develop robust defense systems against adversarial threats including financial fraud, scaled attacks, and platform abuse. This role requires 3+ years of backend engineering experience with production systems and focuses on building secure, scalable infrastructure to maintain platform integrity while ensuring AI safety in production environments. - [Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/research-engineer-retrieval-search-applied-engineering) - OpenAI seeks a Research Engineer to advance retrieval and search technologies for ChatGPT and the OpenAI API, impacting millions of users worldwide. The role combines cutting-edge machine learning research with large-scale production deployment, requiring expertise in vector databases, search systems, and internet-scale infrastructure. - [Data Engineer, Analytics](https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/openai/data-engineer-analytics) - OpenAI is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to lead development of critical data pipelines powering AI safety systems, analytics, and business decisions. The role involves building scalable data infrastructure for ChatGPT and other AI products, collaborating with research teams, and handling massive-scale user event data in a high-growth AI company environment.