Principal Software Engineer, Productivity
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will set technical direction and lead complex initiatives across the Plugin Ecosystem, staying hands-on while driving product and design decisions with Product, Design, Research and engineering partners. You'll design and ship APIs, SDKs and services, build experiences for discovering and using plugins, improve model plugin usage and reliability, and build permissions and admin controls. The role is hybrid in San Francisco, 3 days per week in office.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping products or platforms
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives across teams
- Strong product quality sense and partnership with product managers and designers
- Strong opinions on APIs and abstractions
- Comfortable working across web interfaces and backend systems
- Experience building software other developers use, such as an API, SDK or developer platform
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and lead complex initiatives across the Plugin Ecosystem
- Drive product and design decisions with cross-functional partners
- Design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services for developers extending ChatGPT and Codex
- Build experiences that help users discover, install, and use plugins
- Make plugins easier to create, test, publish, update, and share
- Improve when and how models use plugins, working with Research
- Improve plugin reliability and interaction quality
- Build permissions, approvals, and admin controls
- Turn recurring developer and partner problems into platform improvements
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety
- Mentor engineers and conduct thoughtful code reviews
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
