Principal Software Engineer, Productivity

San Francisco. Posted 23 days ago

The role

A product-minded Principal Software Engineer will set technical direction and build systems behind plugins to extend ChatGPT and Codex. You will lead complex initiatives, design APIs and SDKs, and improve how models use tools.

What you will do

Set technical direction and lead complex initiatives across the Plugin Ecosystem.
Drive product and design decisions with cross-functional partners.
Design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services for ChatGPT and Codex.
Build experiences to help users discover, install, and use plugins.
Make plugins easier to create, test, publish, update, and share.
Improve when and how models use plugins.
Improve plugin reliability and interaction quality.
Build consistent permissions, approvals, and admin controls.
Work with developers to turn recurring problems into platform improvements.
Collaborate across engineering, Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety.

Required qualifications

10+ years of software engineering experience.
Track record of building and shipping products or platforms that people and developers rely on.
Experience leading complex technical initiatives across teams.
Experience driving product and design decisions in partnership with product managers and designers.
Strong opinions about APIs and abstractions.
Ability to move between product questions and technical details.
Ability to collaborate across teams.
Ability to take an ambiguous problem through to production.
Comfortable working across web interfaces and backend systems.

Nice to have

Experience with identity, permissions, or integration-heavy systems.
Experience building applied AI systems, diagnosing model–tool interactions, and measuring reliability and quality.
Experience building an API, SDK, open-source project, developer platform, or internal tools with real users.

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.