Software Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform

The role

You will design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services that allow developers to extend ChatGPT and Codex. You will work on plugin creation, publishing, and open standards like MCP.

What you will do

• Design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services that developers use to extend ChatGPT and Codex.
• Make plugins easier to create, test, publish, update, and share.
• Improve compatibility and consistency across ChatGPT and Codex, including interactive app experiences.
• Contribute to MCP and other open standards.
• Work with developers and partners to understand recurring problems and improve the platform, tooling, and documentation.
• Work with Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety on permissions, compatibility, and safe, reliable execution.
• Own features from the first developer conversation through implementation and release.

Required qualifications

• Have built software that other developers use.
• Have opinions about APIs and abstractions, and can explain the tradeoffs behind your decisions.
• Enjoy talking with developers and learning what they are trying to build.
• Can move between product questions and technical details, identify what matters, and take work from an unclear problem through to production.
• Are comfortable working across web interfaces and backend systems, and learning unfamiliar parts of the stack.

Nice to have

• Experience might include an open-source project, an API or SDK, a developer platform, internal tools with real users, or a devtools company.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

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.