About the position
The job overview for this role is to architect, build, and deploy the back-end systems and services that power OpenAI's API products and consumer products. The role also involves designing and implementing the platform for training, testing, and deploying conversational AI models. Collaboration with product managers, researchers, and the engineering team is essential to create new products and address customer needs. The ideal candidate should have experience in building production systems, prioritize user and developer experience, possess a humble attitude, and be willing to take ownership of problems.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and deploy the back-end systems and services for API products and consumer products
- Design and implement the platform for training, testing, and deploying conversational AIs
- Collaborate with product managers, researchers, and engineering team to create new products based on emerging research capabilities and customer needs
- Iterate rapidly to improve user and developer experience, scalability, performance, observability, and security
- Have meaningful experience in building and rebuilding production systems for new product capabilities and increasing scale
- Care deeply about end user experience and take pride in building customer-centric products
- Care deeply about developer experience and design flexible, expressive, and extensible APIs and systems
- Have a humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and a desire to contribute to team success
- Take ownership of problems end-to-end and acquire necessary knowledge to complete tasks
- Build tools to enhance workflows, both for oneself and teammates, when off-the-shelf solutions are insufficient
- Have experience as a startup founder
Requirements
- Meaningful experience with building and rebuilding production systems
- Ability to deliver new product capabilities and handle increasing scale
- Deep care for end user experience and ability to build products that delight customers
- Strong focus on developer experience and designing flexible, expressive, and extensible APIs and systems
- Humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and willingness to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
- Ownership of problems end-to-end and willingness to acquire necessary knowledge
- Ability to build tools to accelerate workflows when off-the-shelf solutions are not sufficient
- Experience as a startup founder
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
- Mental health and wellness support
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching
- Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
- Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
- Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)