Backend Software Engineer, Gtm Innovation

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Go To Market

Backend Software Engineer for the GTM Innovation team, focused on building and shipping AI-powered applications and tools to enhance OpenAI's go-to-market efforts. This role involves working across the full product lifecycle, partnering with go-to-market teams, and applying OpenAI's models to solve real-world problems, ultimately shaping customer experience and defining new enterprise software categories.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build high-impact applications and tools that accelerate OpenAI’s go-to-market efforts
  2. Work across the full product lifecycle for GTM: prototype, iterate, ship, and maintain
  3. Embed with Sales, Technical Success, and Revenue Operations to identify user needs and build for them
  4. Apply OpenAI’s models in novel ways to solve real-world customer and internal workflow problems
  5. Translate learnings into feedback for Applied and Research teams to inform product development

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of experience as a software/ML/product engineer working on user-facing systems
  • Fluent in Python or JavaScript
  • Comfortable building full-stack applications
  • Built or prototyped LLM-powered workflows using the OpenAI API (or similar)

Nice to have

  • Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch
  • Take initiative, move quickly, and operate with a strong sense of ownership
  • Enjoy working closely with end users
  • Collaborative, curious, and motivated to make an outsized impact at the frontier of AI

What the JD emphasized

  • Apply OpenAI’s models in novel ways to solve real-world customer and internal workflow problems
  • shaping 0->1 products

Other signals

  • shipping novel solutions using OpenAI's API platform
  • applying OpenAI's models in novel ways to solve real-world customer and internal workflow problems
  • shaping 0->1 products