Software Engineer, Implicit Signals

The role

You will build and evolve a classification and evaluation platform. This involves developing services, pipelines, and tools to help researchers and data scientists iterate on measurements.

What you will do

• Design and build software services and APIs for managing classifiers and evaluations.
• Build and operate online and offline classification pipelines.
• Improve model-serving performance including throughput, latency, concurrency, and compute utilization.
• Build tools for experimentation, debugging, and iteration for researchers and data scientists.
• Own production reliability, observability, and incident response.
• Partner with machine learning engineers to bring new capabilities into production.
• Work with post-training researchers and data scientists to shape the product.

Required qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating software services or distributed systems at scale.
• Strong fundamentals in API design, concurrency, caching, performance, and failure recovery.
• Ability to investigate complex production problems and make sound architectural tradeoffs.
• Track record of owning software from initial design through deployment and ongoing operation.
• Strong product judgment and an interest in working directly with technical users.
• Comfort with ambiguous problems and broad ownership across multiple parts of a system.
• Fluency in using AI agents to move quickly across multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with model serving, ML platforms, or inference optimization

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.