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Software Engineer, Applied Emerging Talent (2027)

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labremoteentry-level$180k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own new customer-facing ChatGPT and API features end-to-end.
  • Bring AI technology to millions of users worldwide safely and reliably.
  • Talk to users to understand problems and design impactful solutions.

What they offer

  • equity

Ideal candidate

Early-career, self-starting engineer who cares deeply about user experience and building products that solve real needs. You move fast amid ambiguity and want to bring safe, reliable AI to millions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 0-1 years of experience in software engineering or a relevant field
  • Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and some backend languages (we use Python)
  • Some experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
  • 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

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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