OpenAI

Backend Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen

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Base Salary

$185k - $305k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate backend systems for ChatGPT image generation and editing.
  • Develop scalable APIs, services, orchestration systems, storage platforms, and infrastructure for multimodal AI workflows.
  • Optimize reliability, latency, throughput, and cost across large-scale distributed systems.
  • Partner with researchers to productionize new image generation capabilities safely and quickly.
  • Collaborate with Android, iOS, web, product, mobile, and full-stack engineers on end-to-end experiences.
  • Drive architecture decisions across storage, serving, orchestration, and platform systems.
  • Use data and experimentation to improve user experience, performance, and system efficiency.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and operational excellence.

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems.
  • Strong proficiency in modern backend technologies and cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience designing APIs, service-oriented architectures, and highly reliable production systems.
  • Ability to work across the stack and partner with product and research teams.
  • Strong analytical skills and an ability to use data in technical and product decisions.
  • Strong ownership and comfort navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.
  • Interest in multimodal AI and translating cutting-edge research into products.

Tech Stack

iOS

Categories

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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