Software Engineer, API Agents
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labonsitesenior$266k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build shared agent harness powering long-running, high-value workflows.
- Turn frontier models into systems that reliably complete real work.
- Span search, memory, computer use and multi-agent coordination.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A high-agency backend builder with 7+ years turning ambiguous ideas into reliable production systems, who pairs infrastructure depth with product judgment and cares about making agents useful and dependable.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in relevant backend, infrastructure, platform, or product-driven engineering roles.
- Exceptional backend engineering fundamentals and a track record of leading complex systems from ambiguous problem statements to reliable production services.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar, with the ability to move comfortably across service, platform, and product boundaries.
- Strong systems design and operational judgment across distributed systems, APIs, workflow orchestration, search or storage, compute and execution, identity and permissions, or observability and reliability.
- Infrastructure depth paired with product judgment: you can abstract complex systems into simple, durable primitives that other engineers and developers can build on.
- Strong developer empathy and communication skills, including experience partnering with users, research teams, and product engineers to make fast-moving capabilities useful and dependable.
- High agency and comfort operating in a fast-moving environment, with strong ownership of security, reliability, and operational excellence.
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