OpenAI

Software Engineer, Plugin Ecosystem

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6 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$185k - $490k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services for extending ChatGPT and Codex.
  • Build product experiences for discovering, installing, using, creating, testing, publishing, updating, and sharing plugins.
  • Improve model plugin selection, task completion, reliability, error handling, and recovery paths across ChatGPT and Codex.
  • Develop permissions, approvals, and administrative controls for plugin adoption by individuals and organizations.
  • Work with Research to diagnose model–tool failures and measure improvements as models evolve.
  • Partner with developers and partners to improve the platform, tooling, and documentation.
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety to scale plugin infrastructure and deliver safe, reliable execution.

Requirements

  • Product-minded engineering judgment and strong opinions about APIs and abstractions, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs.
  • Experience with identity, permissions, or integration-heavy systems is especially valuable.
  • Ability to work with users and developers, translate recurring problems into product and platform improvements, and take ambiguous problems through production.
  • Comfort working across web interfaces and backend systems.
  • Experience building products people rely on or software used by other developers, such as APIs, SDKs, open-source projects, developer platforms, or internal tools.
  • Experience with applied AI systems, model–tool interaction diagnosis, and reliability or quality measurement is especially valuable.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring three days per week in the San Francisco office.
  • Relocation assistance for new employees.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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