Key skills
PythonJavaScriptBackend Software EngineeringFull-stack Application DevelopmentLarge Language Model (LLM) WorkflowsOpenAI APIMachine Learning EngineeringProduct EngineeringUser-facing Systems DevelopmentCuriosityGoAIArtificial IntelligenceMLLLMOpenAISales
About this role
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Backend Software Engineer will work with the GTM Innovation team to build high-impact applications that enhance customer engagement and support sales efforts through innovative solutions using OpenAI's API platform.
Responsibilities:
- Build high-impact applications and tools that accelerate OpenAI’s go-to-market efforts
- Work across the full product lifecycle for GTM: prototype, iterate, ship, and maintain
- Embed with Sales, Technical Success, and Revenue Operations to identify user needs and build for them
- Apply OpenAI’s models in novel ways to solve real-world customer and internal workflow problems
- Translate learnings into feedback for Applied and Research teams to inform product development
Requirements:
- Have 4+ years of experience as a software/ML/product engineer working on user-facing systems
- Are fluent in Python or JavaScript and comfortable building full-stack applications
- Take initiative, move quickly, and operate with a strong sense of ownership
- Enjoy working closely with end users and shaping 0→1 products
- Are collaborative, curious, and motivated to make an outsized impact at the frontier of AI
- Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch is a plus
- Have built or prototyped LLM-powered workflows using the OpenAI API (or similar)