Software Engineer, Cooperative AI

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · User Operations

Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered knowledge and automation systems using OpenAI's latest technologies. The role involves end-to-end development, collaboration with various teams, and iterating on applying models to internal use cases, with a focus on customer-facing systems like knowledge systems, automation systems, and automated agent systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the end-to-end development lifecycle for new platform capabilities and integrations with other systems
  2. Collaborate closely with engineers, data scientists, information systems architects, and internal customers to understand their problems and implement effective solutions
  3. Work with product and research team to share relevant feedback and iterate on applying their latest models

Skills

Required

  • Software Engineering
  • Platform Architecture
  • System Integrations
  • Data Modeling
  • Security

Nice to have

  • Customer-centric approach
  • Collaboration
  • Feedback iteration

What the JD emphasized

  • production-ready platform architecture
  • new tech and new paradigms
  • foundational details right (data models, architecture, security)

Other signals

  • Leverage state of the art models, technologies, and products
  • Build systems so everyone can see the leverage that is possible with well designed AI-based implementations
  • Focus on building simple primitives, to apply world class knowledge to many domains