Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation

The role

You will build and scale the foundational infrastructure for a new generation of AI coworkers. This includes designing agent runtimes, memory systems, and evaluation frameworks to automate digital knowledge work.

What you will do

• Build and scale durable agent runtimes, long-running agent loops, and workflow orchestration
• Design context and memory systems
• Develop evaluation frameworks, production feedback loops, and observability
• Partner with Sales, Technical Success, and Revenue Operations to identify and solve problems
• Build reliable backend services, data pipelines, and integrations
• Collaborate with Product and Research teams to advance agent capabilities

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer working on applied AI or user-facing systems
• Domain experience or demonstrated interest in sales technology or enterprise knowledge work automation
• Continually reinvent your software development process as coding models and developer tools improve
• Take initiative, move quickly, and operate with a strong sense of ownership
• Enjoy working closely with end users and shaping 0→1 products
• Are collaborative, curious, and motivated to make an outsized impact at the frontier of AI

Nice to have

• Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The GTM Innovation team builds and scales a fleet of virtual coworkers to automate digital knowledge work.