Software Engineer, Backend - job 1 of 4
About the Team
We bring OpenAI's technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.
We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.
About the Role
As OpenAI scales, we’re looking for experienced, problem-solving engineers to build new products and scale our systems. Our success depends on our ability to quickly iterate on products while also ensuring that they are performant and reliable.
You’ll work in a deeply iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure it’s delivered with safety and reliability in mind.
In this role, you will:
Design and build the development and production platforms that power ChatGPT, enabling reliability and security at scale
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
Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
OpenAI Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement
For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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At OpenAI, we're on a mission to share our cutting-edge technology with the world, and that's why we're looking for a talented Software Engineer, Backend to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will become a key player in developing and enhancing our platforms, including the renowned ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. Your work will directly impact how users experience AI technology, so if you're passionate about building reliable and scalable systems, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. You'll collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers, continuously iterating to deliver new features while ensuring safety and reliability remain at the forefront. The environment is fast-paced and highly collaborative, which means you'll have the chance to thrive alongside equally passionate professionals. Are you someone who takes pride in creating tools that boost productivity? Do you deeply care about the end-user experience? If so, we want to empower you to own problems from start to finish, advocate for your teammates, and play a vital role in building a diverse and inclusive culture at OpenAI. With on-call responsibilities to ensure our systems remain robust, you'll be a meaningful part of a team that believes AI should be beneficial to all of humanity. If you're an experienced software engineer looking to make a difference, we encourage you to join us in shaping the future of technology at OpenAI.
OpenAI is a US based, private research laboratory that aims to develop and direct AI. It is one of the leading Artifical Intellgence organizations and has developed several large AI language models including ChatGPT.
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