OpenAI

Software Engineer, OpenAI Presence

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Base Salary

$230k - $385k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Provide hands-on technical leadership and guide architecture and implementation across the Presence platform.
  • Design and build backend systems for reliable, high-volume AI-agent workflows.
  • Develop platform capabilities supporting agent development and learning from real-world use.
  • Identify and resolve reliability bottlenecks as workflows and usage scale.
  • Work across backend infrastructure and product experiences to deliver software from evolving requirements.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in backend, platform, or product engineering roles.
  • Hands-on technical leadership experience, including architecture, implementation planning, and guiding engineers through delivery.
  • Deep backend engineering and systems-design skills with proficiency in at least one backend programming language.
  • Experience designing reliable services, data models, and interfaces that scale with usage.
  • End-to-end ownership of complex systems or product capabilities from requirements through production iteration.
  • Strong production engineering judgment involving failure diagnosis, performance, scalability, testing, observability, and reliability.
  • Ability to balance delivery speed, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.
  • Ability to contribute across backend infrastructure and product experiences and learn unfamiliar systems and domains.
  • Clear technical communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.
  • Experience with AI agents, enterprise workflows, integrations, or agent development and evaluation is a plus.

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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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