OpenAI

Backend Software Engineer (Evals)

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16 days ago
Seattle, WA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$266k - $445k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design reliable, reproducible, and extensible evaluation pipelines.
  • Build continuous evaluation monitoring frameworks, including regression and drift monitoring, golden datasets, and feedback loops.
  • Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs for intelligent automation and knowledge systems.
  • Integrate and structure data for downstream systems and AI workflows.
  • Collaborate with Data Science, Research, and Engineering teams to integrate OpenAI models into high-leverage workflows.
  • Own the full development lifecycle of backend systems and internal platform capabilities.
  • Build scalable, maintainable systems while iterating rapidly on new ideas.

Requirements

  • At least 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.
  • Experience building AI agents or applications, designing evaluations, and improving performance through prompting or scaffolding.
  • Familiarity with LLM evaluation methods, multi-agent workflows, tool use, or long-context patterns.
  • Experience creating production evaluations and/or measuring ML or LLM model performance at scale.
  • A pragmatic approach to iterative delivery and long-term system development.

Tech Stack

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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