Software Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform
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 design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services developers use to extend ChatGPT and Codex. You'll make plugins easier to create, test, publish, update, and share, contribute to MCP and other open standards, and work directly with developers and partners to improve the platform, tooling, and documentation. You'll also collaborate with Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety.
Requirements
- Have built software that other developers use, such as an open-source project, API or SDK, developer platform, or devtools
- Opinions about APIs and abstractions, able to explain tradeoffs
- Comfortable working across web interfaces and backend systems
- Able to take work from an unclear problem through to production
Responsibilities
- Design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services that developers use to extend ChatGPT and Codex
- Make plugins easier to create, test, publish, update, and share
- Improve compatibility and consistency across ChatGPT and Codex, including interactive app experiences
- Contribute to MCP and other open standards
- Work with developers and partners to improve the platform, tooling, and documentation
- Work with Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety on permissions, compatibility, and safe execution
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 up to 24 weeks, plus paid medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- 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
