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Software Engineer, Backend at OpenAI

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About The Team The ChatGPT for Work team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses.

We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely.

About The Role You will help build and deploy our ChatGPT for Work product.

We shipped ChatGPT for Work in August last year, and we’re humbled and excited by the reception – a recent study found that ChatGPT can drive up to 30% more productivity in knowledge work.

We’re looking for experienced engineers, who are excited by the three components of shipping the best enterprise product: Building a secure, governable, scalable foundation that earns the trust of our customers Packaging the magic of OpenAI in a way that resonates with enterprise buyers Shipping 0-1 products that give users 10x abilities in specific enterprise domains In This Role, You Will Partner with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world Accelerate engineering productivity by empowering your fellow engineers with excellent tooling and systems Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build.

This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed You Might Thrive In This Role If You Have meaningful experience with building (and rebuilding) production systems to deliver new product capabilities and to handle increasing scale Care deeply about the end user experience and take pride in building products to solve customer needs Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done Build tools to accelerate your own (and your teammates’) workflows, but only when off-the-shelf solutions won’t do Have been a startup founder or an early-stage engineer About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.

AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

  • Role: Software Engineer, Backend
  • Company: OpenAI
  • Location: Seattle, WA
  • Job found on: 7th of September, 2025
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