Base Salary
$197k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical partner journey from use-case selection and readiness assessment through architecture, implementation, evaluation, launch, rollout, and maintenance.
- Help partners select and implement browser sign-in, connector-initiated OAuth, and agentic account-linking or provisioning integrations.
- Write production and sample code, reference implementations, test harnesses, technical guidance, integration checklists, evaluations, and debugging tools.
- Debug identity and agent workflows across user interface state, redirects, PKCE/OIDC transactions, token exchange, account mapping, callbacks, latency, retries, rate limits, logs, traces, and metrics.
- Review partner architectures for API contracts, permissions, consent, terms acceptance, secret handling, privacy, reliability, data boundaries, and maintainability.
- Run hands-on evaluations, dogfooding, launch-readiness reviews, staged rollouts, and post-launch investigations.
- Contribute improvements to ChatGPT, Codex, and the Agent Enablement platform, including protocols, APIs, SDKs, documentation, internal tooling, and launch guardrails.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, design, partnerships, legal, policy, security, support, and go-to-market teams.
- Turn recurring partner integration patterns into platform requirements, reference architectures, playbooks, and developer guidance.
Requirements
- 4–6 years of professional software engineering or AI engineering experience.
- Experience in customer- or partner-facing roles involving project scoping, MVP development, solution design, architecture trade-offs, and implementation planning.
- Experience building and operating production full-stack products, APIs, backend services, developer platforms, connectors, or integrations.
- Ability to reason across frontend, backend, authentication, data models, reliability, privacy, and user experience constraints.
- Strong understanding of plugins and connectors for coding agents, including MCP servers, CLIs, and APIs for accessing external tools.
- Ability to work with external engineers, product leaders, and executives and translate partner feedback into technical plans and product improvements.
- Ability to turn ambiguous ideas into runnable prototypes, API contracts, and technical specifications.
- Understanding of the identity stack, including OAuth.
- Experience with APIs, webhooks, schemas, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, tool-calling systems, or other developer-facing integrations.
- Customer- or partner-facing engineering experience leading technical calls and helping external teams ship production software.
- Familiarity with AI products, LLM APIs, ChatGPT or Codex surfaces, coding harnesses, developer platforms, agent workflows, or ecosystem products.
- Experience with evaluations, staged rollouts, observability, incident response, launch operations, and production improvement work.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with 3 days per week in the San Francisco office.
- Relocation assistance is available to new employees.
- The role is based in San Francisco.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.