Software Engineer, Cooperative AI

The role

You will own the development of new products, platform capabilities, and integrations. You will apply OpenAI's latest models to knowledge systems, automation workflows, and AI agents.

What you will do

• Own the development of new products, platform capabilities, and integrations from initial concept through launch and ongoing improvement.
• Apply OpenAI’s latest models to knowledge systems, automation workflows, and AI agents.
• Build reliable, maintainable software that can scale as our products, customers, and operational needs evolve.
• Partner closely with engineers, data scientists, information systems architects, operations teams, and internal customers.
• Work with product and research teams to share feedback, evaluate real-world performance, and improve how we apply new models.
• Identify common patterns across use cases and turn them into reusable capabilities.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships, at technology or product-driven companies.
• Strong programming and software design fundamentals, with depth in areas such as backend, full-stack, product, or platform engineering.
• Experience taking software from idea to production and making thoughtful tradeoffs across quality, speed, reliability, and security.
• A customer-focused approach and the ability to turn loosely defined problems into practical solutions.
• Comfort collaborating across disciplines, navigating ambiguity, and iterating quickly while building toward a long-term vision.

Nice to have

• Curiosity about AI/ML and excitement about applying new models to real-world problems

About the company

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