Base Salary
$266k - $455k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs for intelligent automation and knowledge systems.
- Integrate and structure data across internal platforms for downstream systems and AI workflows.
- Collaborate with product, research, and engineering teams to integrate OpenAI models into workflows.
- Own the full development lifecycle of backend systems and internal platform capabilities.
- Build scalable, maintainable systems while iterating rapidly on new ideas.
Requirements
- 4+ years of backend engineering experience at product-driven companies, excluding internships.
- Proficiency with Python, FastAPI, and Postgres.
- Experience designing and scaling distributed systems, APIs, or data processing pipelines.
- Comfort shipping iteratively while building toward a long-term vision.
- Interest in structured knowledge representation, internal search, agent infrastructure, or evolving systems.
- Curiosity about AI/ML; hands-on experience is a bonus but not required.
Tech Stack
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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.