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Software Engineer, Codex Enterprise

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labonsite$230k–$385k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Turn Codex from an individual tool into a production-grade teammate for teams.
  • Build ecosystem primitives like plugins, skills, hooks and discovery surfaces.
  • Own secure, observable full-stack systems end to end from architecture to production.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Product-minded full-stack builder who thrives in 0-to-1 ambiguity and loves turning messy enterprise needs into scalable platform capabilities. Energized by working directly with customers and owning reliable, secure systems end to end.

Requirements

  • Have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience turning ideas into productionized systems, thinking holistically about speed, performance, and user experience.
  • Are proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust) and distributed systems concepts, with a focus on reliability, observability, and security.
  • Enjoy building cross-cutting platform capabilities that unlock product velocity, and you're comfortable working across services, APIs, end-user product surfaces, and extensibility systems.
  • Have experience with team/enterprise foundations such as identity and access (SAML/OIDC), SCIM, RBAC, audit/compliance logging, policy enforcement, and data governance controls.
  • Like working directly with users/customers (or alongside GTM/solutions teams), and can translate messy, diverse requirements into opinionated implementations that scale across many teams.
  • Enjoy 0 -> 1 environments, can navigate ambiguity, and bring crisp product thinking to technical trade-offs.

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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