Software Engineer, Healthcare

The role

Backend and full-stack software engineers will build systems behind OpenAI's healthcare products. You will work across backend services, APIs, data systems, and integrations to connect AI with healthcare workflows and enterprise data.

What you will do

• Design and build backend and full-stack systems powering OpenAI's healthcare products.
• Build services, APIs, and data pipelines that connect OpenAI products with healthcare systems and enterprise data.
• Develop integrations with electronic health records and other healthcare data sources.
• Design systems that meet requirements around privacy, security, permissions, compliance, and data governance.
• Own features and systems from early architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Build reliable systems capable of handling complex data flows, partial failures, and evolving integration requirements.
• Partner with product, research, security, privacy, GTM, and healthcare organizations.
• Improve the reliability, performance, observability, and operational maturity of production healthcare systems.
• Take ownership of ambiguous technical problems and drive them toward practical, durable solutions.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience writing maintainable, production-quality software.
• Strong experience with backend services, APIs, data systems, or distributed systems.
• Comfortable reasoning about system architecture, data models, authentication, permissions, and integration boundaries.
• Experience owning production systems at scale, including observability, testing, incident response, migrations, and rollout.

Nice to have

• Experience building enterprise SaaS products or platforms.
• Experience with distributed systems, backend architecture, or large-scale data pipelines.
• Experience building integrations with complex third-party systems or APIs.
• Experience with authentication, identity, permissions, or enterprise security.
• Experience working in regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, or enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience with healthcare interoperability, EHR systems, or healthcare data standards.
• Experience building HIPAA-compliant products or systems.
• Experience building applied AI or conversational products.
• Previous experience in healthcare or health technology.

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.