Base Salary
$293k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend systems powering AI-native financial workflows across ChatGPT Work and Codex.
- Build infrastructure to ingest, index, retrieve, and serve financial data, company filings, market information, and firm-specific knowledge at scale.
- Develop secure integrations with financial data providers, enterprise knowledge systems, and customer environments, including authentication, authorization, and entitlements.
- Build systems that enable models and agents to use appropriate tools and data, preserve source provenance, and produce accurate, verifiable outputs.
- Improve the reliability, latency, observability, and quality of production systems and develop evaluations for real financial workflows.
- Work directly with financial institutions to understand needs, unblock deployments, and translate feedback into product improvements.
- Partner with product, design, research, security, and engineering teams to move capabilities from prototype to scaled production.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript, with a strong foundation in APIs, data systems, and distributed systems.
- Experience building data-intensive applications, search or retrieval systems, infrastructure platforms, or complex integrations.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into practical, well-engineered solutions.
- Ability to work across the stack and organizational boundaries to deliver products.
- Strong attention to reliability, security, privacy, and performance in enterprise or other high-trust environments.
- Interest in AI and applying model capabilities to complex professional work.
- Direct AI/ML or financial services experience is helpful but not required; founder, early-startup, or zero-to-one product-building experience is a plus.
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.