Software Engineer, Plugin Ecosystem

The role

You will build systems behind plugins and improve how models use them. This includes designing APIs, SDKs, and services, as well as building user experiences for plugin discovery and usage.

What you will do

• Design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services that developers use to extend ChatGPT and Codex.
• Build intuitive experiences that help users discover, install, and use plugins.
• Make plugins easier to create, test, publish, update, and share.
• Improve when and how models use plugins.
• Work with Research to diagnose failures and measure improvements as models evolve.
• Improve plugin reliability and interaction quality across ChatGPT and Codex.
• Build consistent permissions, approvals, and admin controls.
• Work with developers and partners to turn recurring problems into platform improvements.
• Collaborate across engineering, Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety.

Required qualifications

• Have strong opinions about APIs and abstractions.
• Can move between product questions and technical details.
• Can collaborate across teams.
• Can take an ambiguous problem through to production.
• Are comfortable working across web interfaces and backend systems.
• Have built products people rely on or software that other developers use, such as an API or SDK, an open-source project, a developer platform, or internal tools with real users.

Nice to have

• Experience with identity, permissions, or integration-heavy systems is especially valuable.
• Experience building applied AI systems, diagnosing model–tool interactions, and measuring reliability and quality is especially valuable.

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.