Backend Software Engineer (Applied AI)

TL;DR

Backend Software Engineer (Applied AI): Building high-impact applications and tools that accelerate OpenAI’s go-to-market efforts with an accent on user-facing systems and workflows. Focus on collaborating with sales and technical teams to create novel solutions using OpenAI’s API platform.

Location: Onsite in San Francisco

Company

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

What you will do

• 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/product engineer working on user-facing systems
• Fluent in Python or JavaScript and comfortable building full-stack applications
• Experience building or prototyping LLM-powered workflows using the OpenAI API (or similar)
• Strong sense of ownership and initiative
• Enjoy working closely with end users and shaping 0→1 products