Software Engineer, Plugin Ecosystem
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 build the systems behind plugins and improve how models use them. Depending on your focus, you may scale infrastructure and identity integrations, improve plugin quality at the intersection of backend and applied AI, or build product experiences that drive plugin usage. You'll design APIs and SDKs, build permissions and admin controls, and work with developers, partners, Research, and Security.
Requirements
- Care about product quality
- Strong opinions about APIs and abstractions; identity, permissions, or integration-heavy experience valuable
- Comfortable working across web interfaces and backend systems
- Experience building applied AI systems valuable
- Have built products people rely on or software other developers use
Responsibilities
- Design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services that developers use to extend ChatGPT and Codex
- Build intuitive experiences for discovering, installing, and using plugins
- Make plugins easier to create, test, publish, update, and share
- Improve when and how models use plugins, working with Research to diagnose failures
- Improve plugin reliability and interaction quality with clear error messages and recovery paths
- Build consistent permissions, approvals, and admin controls
- Turn recurring developer and partner problems into platform, tooling, and documentation improvements
- Collaborate across engineering, Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety
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
