Applied AI Engineer, Plugins

The role

You will help strategic partners design, build, evaluate, launch, and maintain high-utility plugins for ChatGPT and Codex. This role involves technical partner engagement, writing production code, and contributing to the OpenAI platform.

What you will do

• Own the technical partner journey for priority B2B plugins.
• Identify plugin use cases and define user journeys.
• Write production and sample code, build prototypes, and create technical guidance.
• Debug API contracts, OAuth/login, tool invocation, and other system issues.
• Review partner architectures for API design, safety, privacy, and reliability.
• Contribute fixes and improvements to ChatGPT, Codex, and the plugins platform.
• Work with cross-functional teams to make partner launches smooth.
• Bring structured signal from partners back to product and engineering teams.

Required qualifications

• 4-6 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating production APIs, backend services, developer platforms, apps, plugins, connectors, or integrations.
• Ability to reason across frontend, backend, auth, reliability, privacy, evaluations, and UX constraints.
• Strong product sense.
• Ability to communicate clearly with external engineers, product leaders, executives, and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to make ambiguous partner ideas concrete through prototypes, API contracts, and technical specs.
• Comfortable reading unfamiliar code and debugging distributed systems with logs, traces, metrics, and experiments.
• Care about user trust, privacy, data handling, and product quality.

Nice to have

• Experience with OAuth/login flows, API design, webhooks, schemas, rate limits, observability, SDKs, and production launch operations.
• Prior customer-facing or partner-facing engineering experience.
• Familiarity with AI products, LLM APIs, tool calling, MCP, ChatGPT or Codex surfaces, developer platforms, or marketplace ecosystems.
• Comfortable making targeted changes across backend services, frontend surfaces, SDKs, docs, internal tools, or monorepo codebases.
• Strong written communication skills.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

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.