OpenAI

Software Engineer, Implicit Signals

OpenAI
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Base Salary

$347k - $445k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build software services and APIs for configuring, running, and managing classifiers and evaluations.
  • Build and operate online and offline classification pipelines at scale.
  • Improve model-serving performance across throughput, latency, concurrency, and compute utilization.
  • Develop tools for experimentation, debugging, and rapid iteration by researchers and data scientists.
  • Own production reliability, observability, incident response, and operational burden reduction.
  • Partner with machine learning engineers to bring classification capabilities into production.
  • Work with researchers and data scientists to understand workflows, prioritize improvements, and shape the product.

Requirements

  • Experience designing, building, and operating software services or distributed systems at scale.
  • Strong fundamentals in API design, concurrency, caching, performance, and failure recovery.
  • Ability to investigate complex production problems and make sound architectural tradeoffs.
  • Track record of owning software from initial design through deployment and ongoing operation.
  • Strong product judgment and interest in working directly with technical users.
  • Comfort with ambiguous problems and broad ownership across multiple system areas.
  • Fluency in using AI agents across multiple workstreams.
  • Interest in machine learning, data science, and statistics.
  • Experience with model serving, ML platforms, or inference optimization is a plus.
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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