Backend Software Engineer, Gov

The role

You will own the end-to-end development of new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features for public sector customers. You will work on both on-premises and cloud environments while collaborating with research, security, and compliance teams.

What you will do

• Own the development of new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features end-to-end, both on-premises and in the cloud, for our public sector customers.
• Partner and directly embed with teams across the business, including engineering, security, and compliance.
• Talk to users to understand their problems and design solutions to address them.
• Work with the research team to get relevant feedback and iterate on their latest models.
• Develop solutions specific for public sector customers at both the model and data layers.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations folks.
• Optimize applications for speed and scale.

Required qualifications

• 9+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
• Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies
• Proficiency with some backend language (we use Python)
• Some experience with underlying infrastructure primitives like Kubernetes and Terraform
• Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines
• An interest in enabling public sector use cases with unique requirements

Nice to have

• Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)

Before you apply

• This position requires U.S. person status as defined by the applicable government contract.
• 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.