OpenAI

Backend Software Engineer - Codex for Finance

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2 months ago

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 convert feedback into product improvements.
  • Collaborate 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.
  • Strong foundations in APIs, data systems, and distributed systems.
  • Experience with data-intensive applications, search or retrieval systems, infrastructure platforms, or complex integrations.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into practical, well-engineered solutions and work across the stack and organizational boundaries.
  • Strong focus on reliability, security, privacy, and performance in enterprise or high-trust environments.
  • Interest in applying AI and model capabilities to complex professional work; direct AI/ML or financial services experience is helpful but not required.
  • Founder, early-startup engineering, or new-product development experience 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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