Software Engineer, Cooperative AI
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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.
Skills
About the Role
You will own development of new products, platform capabilities and integrations from concept through launch. You'll apply the latest models to knowledge systems, automation workflows and AI agents, build reliable scalable software, partner with engineers, data scientists and internal customers, and turn common patterns into reusable capabilities.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships
- Strong programming and software design fundamentals, with depth in backend, full-stack, product, or platform engineering
- Experience taking software from idea to production
- Customer-focused approach and ability to turn loosely defined problems into solutions
- Comfort collaborating across disciplines and navigating ambiguity
- Direct AI/ML experience not required
Responsibilities
- Own development of new products, platform capabilities, and integrations from concept through launch
- Apply latest models to knowledge systems, automation workflows, and AI agents
- Build reliable, maintainable, scalable software
- Partner with engineers, data scientists, architects, operations teams, and internal customers
- Share feedback with product and research teams and evaluate real-world model performance
- Turn common patterns into reusable capabilities
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents, 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated company office closures
- 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