Backend Software Engineer - Codex for Finance
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labremotesenior$347k–$385k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build backend systems powering AI-native financial workflows in ChatGPT and Codex.
- Ingest and serve financial data, filings, and firm knowledge at scale.
- Help deploy trusted AI products at the world's largest financial institutions.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A product-minded backend builder with 5+ years shipping reliable systems who thrives in zero-to-one ambiguity and cares about making AI trustworthy for high-stakes financial work.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems
- Proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript with foundation in APIs and distributed systems
- Experience building data-intensive applications, search or retrieval systems, or complex integrations
- Strong product instincts and ability to move from ambiguous customer problem to well-engineered solution
- Comfort working across the stack and organizational boundaries to ship product
- High bar for reliability, security, privacy, and performance in enterprise environments
- Interest in AI and applying model capabilities to complex professional work
- Founder, early startup, or zero-to-one product building experience is a plus
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets