Base Salary
$197k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical partner journey for priority B2B plugins from pitch and readiness assessment through architecture, build, evaluation, submission, launch, and maintenance.
- Identify strong plugin use cases, define user journeys and expected behaviors, and help partners focus on workflows that create meaningful user value.
- Write production and sample code, build prototypes and reference implementations, and create technical guidance, evaluations, launch checklists, and debugging tools.
- Debug API contracts, OAuth/login, tool invocation, latency, retries, rate limits, observability, data models, and user-experience issues across partner and OpenAI systems.
- Review partner architectures and implementation plans for API design, permissions, data handling, safety, privacy, reliability, and maintainability.
- Contribute fixes and improvements to ChatGPT, Codex, and the plugins platform, including APIs, SDKs, documentation, examples, internal tooling, debugging workflows, and launch guardrails.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, design, partnerships, legal, policy, support, and go-to-market teams on partner launches.
- Turn partner feedback and successful launch patterns into reusable playbooks, examples, platform requirements, and implementation guidance.
Requirements
- 4–6 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience building and operating production APIs, backend services, developer platforms, apps, plugins, connectors, or integrations.
- Ability to reason across frontend, backend, authentication, reliability, privacy, evaluations, and user-experience constraints.
- Strong product sense and ability to turn ambiguous partner ideas into prototypes, API contracts, technical specifications, and implementation guidance.
- Ability to read unfamiliar code, make targeted platform changes, and debug distributed systems using logs, traces, metrics, and experiments.
- Clear communication skills with external engineers, product leaders, executives, and internal cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience with OAuth/login flows, API design, webhooks, schemas, rate limits, observability, SDKs, and production launch operations is preferred.
- Prior customer-facing or partner-facing engineering experience is preferred.
- Familiarity with AI products, LLM APIs, tool calling, MCP, ChatGPT or Codex surfaces, developer platforms, or marketplace ecosystems is preferred.
- Comfort making targeted changes across backend services, frontend surfaces, SDKs, documentation, internal tools, or monorepo codebases is preferred.
- Strong written communication for documentation, implementation notes, launch plans, and partner-facing technical guidance is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with 3 days in the San Francisco office per week
- Relocation assistance for new employees
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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.