Backend Software Engineer, Gov
OpenAI · Washington, DC · Seattle · San Francisco
CHECKED 35M AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$207k–$385k
At a glance
Highlights
- Deploy OpenAI technology into new environments for critical public sector missions.
- Build customer-facing ChatGPT and API features on-premises and in the cloud.
- Optimize inference serving for unique, high-stakes public sector environments.
What they offer
- Offers Equity
Ideal candidate
Senior product-minded engineer who moves fast amid ambiguity and partners closely with users. Motivated by safe, responsible AI that powers critical public-sector missions.
Requirements
- 9+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
- Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies
- Proficiency with some backend language (we use Python)
- Some experience with underlying infrastructure primitives like Kubernetes and Terraform
- Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)
- Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines
- An interest in enabling public sector use cases with unique requirements
- visa sponsorship
- Requires U.S. person status
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