Software Engineer, ChatGPT

About the Team

The ChatGPT team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers.

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

The ChatGPT team is multi-disciplinary, spanning research as well as product development. 

You’ll likely spend time on some of these areas:

• Accelerate our research team by building core infrastructure, tooling, and data systems to enable rapid experimentation and learning
• Scale and strengthen our production infrastructure to support orders of magnitude of reliable growth for ChatGPT
• Build new product features to make ChatGPT useful, delightful, and broadly beneficial

Whatever your focus, you’ll iterate rapidly with an integrated, cross-functional team advancing the state of the art of AI modeling, deployment, and safety.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have meaningful experience with building (and rebuilding) production systems to deliver new 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 be 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

Our tech stack

We use Python across our production systems as well as our research infrastructure. We make significant use of Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres, and Cosmos DB. We primarily use TypeScript and React for building web interfaces. 

While we value experience with these technologies, we are primarily looking for engineers with strong technical skills and the ability to quickly pick up new tools and frameworks.

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. 

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.

Compensation, Benefits and Perks

The annual salary range for this role is $200,000 – $370,000. Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• Mental health and wellness support
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching
• Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
• Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
• Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)

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. 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.

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