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New York, NY, United States· Full-time· Remote
$168K – $330K/yr
● Strong current hiring demand for this role
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Pay vs market · Top quarter
This job's pay ($355,500 a year at the midpoint) is higher than over 90% of 96 salary-listed Software Engineer jobs in New York in the last 12 months; their median is $228,750.
Role overview
Job description
About the Team API Frontiers turns OpenAI’s frontier models into production APIs that developers can use to build reliable products and agents. We own the core path connecting models to developers through the Responses API, with a focus on safety, reliability, and speed. Working closely with Research, Safety, Codex, and other API teams, we bring new model capabilities into production and improve them through developer feedback. About the Role We are looking for a backend software engineer to build and operate the services behind the Responses API. You will shape API behavior, bring new capabilities from research into production, and make long-running agent workflows dependable and fast. The work combines distributed systems engineering with product judgment: designing useful developer interfaces, managing staged rollouts, and following production issues through to durable fixes. In this
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- Source: OpenAI's official careers site (via Ashby) · last confirmed on the source 2 Nov 2026
- Posted 11 Sept 2026
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Salary trend 1Y
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What they are looking for
Skills & requirements
Qualification
Your background might look something like: 5+ years of experience building and operating backend services or developer-facing APIs in production
Department · Core Product & Platform
Hiring company
OpenAI
Technology
FONDER L'INNOVATION (depuis 1984) Partie I [le début n'avait même pas 2 fin.s] : The Book of.f MandaloriÂn.e Studio d'innovation ouvert.e (Open Innovation) issu de la fusion des activités du bureau d'étude (BE) de la marque 2 fabrique OPENAI (Open Ahead Inspiration) créée initialement à Genève (CH)
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