Software Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labremote$185k–$490k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build APIs, SDKs and tools letting developers extend ChatGPT and Codex.
- Ship plugins, connectors, MCP support and interactive app experiences.
- Own features from developer conversations through release to production.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Platform-minded engineer who loves building for developers and shaping APIs. You enjoy talking with users, navigating ambiguity, and taking unclear ideas to production.
Requirements
- Experience building software that other developers use, such as APIs, SDKs, or developer platforms
- Opinions about APIs and abstractions with ability to explain tradeoffs
- Enjoy talking with developers and learning what they are trying to build
- Ability to move between product and technical details from unclear problem to production
- Comfortable working across web interfaces and backend systems
- Interest in defining how developers build for AI agents including open standards like MCP
- 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