Software Engineer, Ad Formats
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
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build the creative rendering and presentation layer of OpenAI's ads ecosystem. You'll work across the full stack to create infrastructure and tooling for new ad formats such as text, image, video, native, conversational and interactive, making sure they render reliably and feel natural in ChatGPT. You'll collaborate with Product, Design and Research, prototype quickly, and help shape the technical roadmap.
Requirements
- 7+ years building high-scale consumer product experiences, creative systems, ads systems or platform infrastructure
- Track record of architecting and delivering complex multi-surface systems
- Comfortable across frontend, backend, design and product strategy
- Strong product intuition
- Clear communication
Responsibilities
- Design, build and scale creative rendering and presentation systems for ads
- Develop infrastructure and tooling for ad formats across text, image, video, native, conversational and interactive surfaces
- Define how ads are structured, rendered, validated and delivered
- Build systems ensuring ads render reliably and perform efficiently across platforms
- Partner with Product, Design and Research to prototype and ship ad experiences
- Architect distributed systems with strong reliability, privacy and performance guarantees
- Drive 0→1 product development through rapid prototyping and iteration
- Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap
- Maintain engineering rigor through testing, documentation and observability
- Uphold safety, privacy, fairness and policy compliance
Benefits
- Equity
- 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 life and disability coverage
- Learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
