OpenAI

Software Engineer, Ad Formats

OpenAI
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3 months ago

Base Salary

$230k - $385k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale creative rendering and presentation systems for OpenAI’s ads experiences.
  • Develop infrastructure and tooling for text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive ad formats.
  • Define how ads are structured, rendered, validated, and delivered across ChatGPT and other OpenAI product experiences.
  • Build systems that render reliably, perform efficiently, and meet high quality standards across platforms.
  • Partner with Product, Design, and Research to prototype and ship native-feeling ad experiences.
  • Architect distributed systems and services with reliability, usability, privacy, and performance guarantees.
  • Drive 0-to-1 development through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment.
  • Contribute to technical strategy and shape the roadmap for the ads formats platform.
  • Maintain testing, documentation, observability, and operational best practices.
  • Uphold safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance across ad rendering and delivery systems.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building high-scale consumer product experiences, creative systems, ads systems, or platform infrastructure.
  • Track record of architecting and delivering complex systems powering user-facing experiences across multiple surfaces.
  • Experience spanning frontend systems, backend infrastructure, design, and product strategy.
  • Strong product intuition and collaborative experience with Product, Design, and Research.
  • Ability to define systems, architecture, and user experiences in 0-to-1 environments.
  • Clear communication, holistic thinking, and decisions grounded in user needs and long-term sustainability.
  • Motivation to build privacy-preserving, safe, and user-first monetization systems.
  • Experience with ad formats, creative rendering systems, content delivery, design systems, media platforms, or interactive product experiences is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Exclusively based at the San Francisco headquarters.
  • Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.

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OpenAI

About OpenAI

1,001-5,000 employees

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.