Software Engineer, Financial Engineering
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 architect and build the systems that power how customers purchase, access, and pay for OpenAI products, including pricing and packaging, checkout, payments, subscriptions, usage-based billing, credits, entitlements, and invoicing. You will own ambiguous, business-critical problems from definition through launch and operation, and partner with Product, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Data, and Go-to-Market teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems
- Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems, transactional workflows, and event-driven architecture
- Experience building systems where correctness, reliability, observability, security, or data integrity are important
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical partners
Responsibilities
- Architect and build financial systems for pricing, checkout, payments, subscriptions, billing, and invoicing
- Own business-critical problems from definition through launch and long-term operation
- Ensure correctness, reliability, security, reconciliation, and auditability of systems
- Partner with Product, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Data, and Go-to-Market teams
- Make tradeoffs between near-term delivery and long-term system quality
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 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 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
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Performance-related bonus
