Software Engineer, Enterprise Verticals

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Applied AI

Software Engineer role focused on building and shipping role-specific workflows within ChatGPT Work for enterprise clients. The role involves end-to-end ownership from understanding customer problems to product shaping, full-stack development, managing platform dependencies, and ensuring quality through evaluations and observability. Success is measured by reliable first results and continued workflow usage, not just prototypes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and ship role-specific workflows across ChatGPT Work surfaces, services, plugins, and connectors.
  2. Turn customer and design-partner evidence into clear product decisions, milestones, and measurable quality gates without overfitting to a single customer.
  3. Partner with Design, Research, GTM, Security, and platform teams.
  4. Create robust evaluations, observability, and rollback paths.
  5. Own the full loop from prototype through bounded rollout and iteration.

Skills

Required

  • strong product engineer with excellent product judgment
  • comfortable moving across frontend, backend, APIs, data, and systems integration
  • communicate clearly with customers and cross-functional partners
  • use evidence and tests to make ambiguous work observable
  • care about enterprise permissions, reliability, privacy, and rollout safety
  • shipped a user-facing product through ambiguity and can explain the decisions, tradeoffs, and evidence behind it
  • translate a concrete customer workflow into a general product without losing the details that make the first experience useful

Nice to have

  • Experience building and operating full-stack production products across a modern frontend stack (such as React/TypeScript) and backend services (such as Python, Go, Node.js, or comparable technologies).
  • Experience designing evolvable APIs, data models, and distributed or integration-heavy systems, including authentication, identity, permissions, secure data flows, and partial-failure behavior.
  • Experience owning production systems at scale, including observability, performance, testing, incident response, safe migrations, staged rollout, and rollback.
  • Experience building applied-AI or conversational products and evaluating probabilistic behavior with grounding, quality signals, and human-feedback loops.
  • Experience building dashboards, data visualizations, or workflow and insight products that make complex information understandable and actionable.
  • Familiarity with experimentation, product metrics, and iterative development, including instrumenting user outcomes from first use through retained usage.

What the JD emphasized

  • reliable daily work
  • trustworthy first result
  • bounded production rollout
  • bounded rollout and iteration
  • enterprise permissions, reliability, privacy, and rollout safety
  • applied-AI or conversational products and evaluating probabilistic behavior with grounding, quality signals, and human-feedback loops

Other signals

  • build and ship role-specific workflows
  • turn customer and design-partner evidence into clear product decisions
  • Create robust evaluations, observability, and rollback paths
  • Own the full loop from prototype through bounded rollout and iteration