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Principal Software Engineer, Productivity

OpenAI · San Francisco

Frontier labonsiteprincipal$459k–$536k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead technical direction for plugins extending ChatGPT and Codex.
  • Build discovery, install, and execution experiences for plugins.
  • Improve model plugin selection and task completion with Research.

What they offer

  • Relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

Product-minded engineering leader with 10+ years shipping relied-upon products or platforms. You care about intuitive user experiences and driving cross-team technical and product direction.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping products or platforms
  • Led complex technical initiatives across teams with product managers and designers
  • Strong opinions about APIs and abstractions with clear tradeoff reasoning
  • Experience with identity, permissions, or integration-heavy systems
remote policy
3 days in office per week

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
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