Software Engineer, Codex Enterprise
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'll shape and build new Codex Enterprise products and major capabilities, owning projects from exploration through architecture, launch and production operations. You'll build plugins, skills, hooks and discovery experiences plus services for enterprise administration, governance and usage visibility, working with product managers and Forward Deployed Engineers.
Requirements
- Deep backend engineering experience, including production services and distributed systems
- Demonstrated ownership of a new product or major capability through launch
- Exceptional coding, software design, and debugging fundamentals with proficiency in a backend language
- Strong product judgment
- Ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Shape new Codex Enterprise products and features using product judgment
- Own projects from exploration through architecture, implementation, launch, and production operations
- Build ecosystem capabilities such as plugins, skills, hooks, and discovery experiences, plus enterprise administration, governance, and usage visibility services
- Design reliable, secure, observable backend systems supporting Codex across web, IDEs, CLI, and CI/CD
- Partner with product managers and Forward Deployed Engineers to turn deployment learnings into product improvements
- Ramp quickly in unfamiliar domains, surface edge cases, and communicate trade-offs
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents) plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures, plus paid sick or safe time
- 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 for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus