Software Engineer, Life Sciences
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.
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About the Role
You will design backend services, APIs and integrations that connect users with models, scientific tools and laboratory services, and create intuitive interfaces for complex scientific workflows. You will own projects from technical design through launch and iteration, work with scientific partners to prioritize improvements, and partner with infrastructure engineers on performance and reliability.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and depth in backend development
- Ability to build across the stack
- Experience shipping and operating products used by large user bases
- Strong product sense
- Ability to work autonomously with limited direction
- Experience with AI applications, model-serving or inference platforms (relevant)
- Life sciences experience helpful but not required
Responsibilities
- Design backend services, APIs and integrations connecting users with models, scientific tools and laboratory services
- Create intuitive interfaces for complex workflows
- Own projects from problem definition through launch, operation and iteration
- Work with scientific and research partners to identify user needs
- Partner with infrastructure engineers on performance, reliability and scaling
- Balance speed, quality and long-term maintainability in engineering decisions
Benefits
- Equity
- 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 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 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