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About the Team The Core Services organization builds and runs the mission-critical online services that product teams rely on in production. We own foundational distributed systems and platform capabilities that enable reliable execution, high-performance services, and large-scale file/data needs across our products. This team is distinct from developer infrastructure and data infrastructure—our focus is production service foundations and core runtime services. About the Role We’re hiring an Engineering Manager, Core Services to help lead teams responsible for highly reliable, high-scale distributed systems that sit on the critical path for OpenAI products. Your team will own foundational production systems that OpenAI’s product engineering teams build on. You’ll collaborate closely with product and infrastructure partners to ship reliable services quickly, and help scale systems and teams as OpenAI grows. You’ll partner closely with senior engineering leaders to scale the org, mature operations, and drive major platform initiatives. This role requires strong technical ability. You’ll be responsible for: Managing and growing a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers. Leading teams building and operating large, critical production platforms, including cluster reliability, scaling, and rollout safety. Building and operating mission-critical distributed systems with strong operational rigor (SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, reliability). Setting technical direction for platform foundations such as workflow/orchestration capabilities, large-scale file/blob/storage services, and core service foundations. Partnering with a broad set of stakeholders, including product engineering, adjacent infrastructure teams, and (where relevant) finance/cost partners. Coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers and emerging leaders. You might thrive in this role if you: Have significant experience leading teams that run mission-critical infrastructure in production

About the Team OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products (such as ChatGPT & Codex) that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide. The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from identity & access, to safety to payments & commerce across all of our apps. Our teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety, working together to deliver technology that is reliable, secure, and trusted at global scale. About the Role We’re hiring Backend Software Engineers to design and implement safe services and infrastructure that power our core products. What You’ll Do Architect, build, and improve scalable backend systems and APIs. Drive performance, reliability, and safety across distributed services. Implement data storage, retrieval, compute, and integration solutions. Participate in long-term architectural planning and technical design reviews. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design solutions that protect against and mitigate adversarial attacks without compromising user experience. You Might Thrive Here If You: Have strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, and backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, C++). Have experience setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines. Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed. Enjoy building resilient services that handle large scale and complexity. Are self-directed and enjoy figuring out the best way to solve a particular problem Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek

About the Team OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products (such as ChatGPT & Codex) that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide. The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from identity & access, to safety to payments & commerce across all of our apps. Our teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety, working together to deliver technology that is reliable, secure, and trusted at global scale. About the Role We’re hiring Full-Stack Software Engineers to design and implement safe services, systems and infrastructure that power our core products. In this role, you will: Architect, build, and improve frontend and backend systems. Work across the full stack to build products and systems from initial exploration through launch readiness. Participate in long-term architectural planning and technical design reviews. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design solutions that protect against and mitigate adversarial attacks without compromising user experience. You might thrive in this role if you: Have built and shipped full-stack apps or systems end-to-end — in fast-moving, startup-like environments. Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed. Enjoy building resilient products and services that handle large scale and complexity. Are self-directed and enjoy figuring out the best way to solve a particular problem Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool t

About the Team OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide. The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from identity & access, to safety to payments & commerce across all of our apps. Our teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety, working together to deliver technology that is reliable, secure, and trusted at global scale. About the Role You will be a Senior Android engineer on OpenAI’s Applied Foundations team, building the core mobile experiences that power how users sign up, manage their account, family features, pay for services, stay safe, and interact with OpenAI’s products with confidence. This role is about creating high-quality products as well as reusable Android foundations that product teams across different OpenAI apps depend on to ship quickly while meeting the highest standards for security, reliability, and user trust. You’ll own complex client-side systems spanning UI, networking, local state, payment integrations and Apple platform integrations, and work closely with backend, product, and safety partners to shape the architecture that supports OpenAI’s mobile ecosystem at global scale. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience. Have a proven track record of building high-quality Android applications in production. Are fluent in Kotlin (and/or Java) and familiar with Android development tools and architecture components. Prioritize performance, security, and user experience in mobile development. Enjoy working cross-functionally to bring ambitious product ideas to life. Care deeply about performance, security, and user experience. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We

About the Team OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide. The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from identity & access, to safety to payments & commerce across all of our apps. Our teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety, working together to deliver technology that is reliable, secure, and trusted at global scale. About the Role You will be a Senior iOS engineer on OpenAI’s Applied Foundations team, building the core mobile experiences that power how users sign up, manage their account, family features, pay for services, stay safe, and interact with OpenAI’s products with confidence. This role is about creating high-quality products as well as reusable iOS foundations that product teams across different OpenAI apps depend on to ship quickly while meeting the highest standards for security, reliability, and user trust. You’ll own complex client-side systems spanning UI, networking, local state, payment integrations and Apple platform integrations, and work closely with backend, product, and safety partners to shape the architecture that supports OpenAI’s mobile ecosystem at global scale. In this role, you will: Build and ship new experiences on iOS that showcase the power of AI. Optimize app performance, reliability, and responsiveness at global scale. Design and maintain shared iOS frameworks and primitives for account, trust, and commerce flows that are used across OpenAI’s mobile apps. Establish robust testing frameworks and refine app architecture for long-term maintainability. Collaborate with product, design, research, and backend teams to deliver high-impact features. Provide technical leadership to shape the future of OpenAI’s iOS platform. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience. Hav

About the Team The ChatGPT Learning team focuses on building the next generation of learning experiences inside ChatGPT. Learning is already one of the largest consumer use cases on the platform, with millions of people each week using ChatGPT to understand concepts, practice skills, and get unstuck while learning. Our goal is to evolve ChatGPT from a place people go for one-off answers into a platform that helps people learn, grow, and make progress over time. We are exploring how AI can expand access to powerful learning tools for people everywhere—helping individuals better understand the world, build new skills, and pursue their goals. This team sits at the intersection of product engineering, design, AI research, and education, working to bring powerful learning experiences to a global audience. About the Role As a Full Stack Engineer on the ChatGPT Learning team, you will help design and build new product experiences that enable millions of people to learn with ChatGPT. You’ll work across the stack—from user-facing interfaces to backend services—to ship product features that make learning more intuitive, engaging, and effective. You’ll collaborate closely with researchers and platform teams to bring cutting-edge model capabilities into real-world products, helping translate advances in AI into experiences that people can use every day. We’re looking for engineers who enjoy building polished product experiences, operating with high ownership, and solving ambiguous problems that sit at the intersection of AI research and consumer software. This role is based in San Francisco or New York City. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. What You’ll Do Build end-to-end product experiences that help people learn with ChatGPT. Design and implement new multimodal capabilities that bring text, images, voice, and interactive interfaces into learning workflows. Develop scalable backend services and APIs t

About the Role The Engineering Acceleration Delivery / Continuous Deployment team builds and operates the systems that safely ship OpenAI’s infrastructure and product code to production. We own the deployment platform, release pipelines, and rollout safety mechanisms that allow engineers across OpenAI to deploy changes rapidly while minimizing operational risk. Our mission is to make production deployments fast, safe, and increasingly autonomous. This role sits at the intersection of developer productivity, distributed systems reliability, and large-scale infrastructure orchestration. In This Role, You Will Design and build continuous deployment infrastructure that safely rolls out changes across dozens of Kubernetes clusters and global regions. Develop systems for progressive delivery, including canary releases, staged rollouts, and automated rollback. Improve engineering velocity by reducing friction in the release pipeline and automating manual operational workflows. Work with product and infrastructure teams to ensure their services are deployable, observable, and resilient at scale. Implement and evolve deployment methodologies such as GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, and progressive delivery patterns. Build systems that automatically evaluate deployment health using metrics, logs, traces, and alerts to detect regressions and trigger safe rollbacks. Build systems that support agent-assisted or autonomous deployment workflows using modern AI tooling. Technologies commonly used in this environment include: Kubernetes for large-scale container orchestration and runtime infrastructure Python and FastAPI for internal services Terraform for infrastructure as code GitOps-based deployment workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux, or similar systems) Buildkite for CI orchestration You may be a strong fit if you: Have worked with Kubernetes-based deployment systems at scale Have experience building or operating continuous deployment platforms Are familiar with GitOps tooling such as

About the Team The Applied team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world. We seek to learn from deployment and broadly distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. We aim to make our innovative tools globally accessible, transcending geographic, economic, or platform barriers. Our commitment is to facilitate the use of AI to enhance lives, fostered by rigorous insights into how people use our products. About the Role We are seeking Software Engineers (Emerging Talent) to join our Applied Engineering team. You’ll work in a highly iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure it’s delivered with safety and reliability in mind. We value engineers who are self-starters, care deeply about the end user experience, and take pride in building products to solve customer needs. In this role, you will: Own the development of new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features and product experiences end-to-end Talk to users to understand their problems and design solutions to address them Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations folks to create cutting-edge products Optimize applications for speed and scale Create a diverse and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome. Your background looks something like: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience 0-1 years of experience in software engineering or a relevant field Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and some backend languages (we use Python) Some experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required) Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadl

About the Team The ChatGPT organization at OpenAI supports our mission by bringing advanced AI capabilities to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. The Image Generation team is responsible for one of the fastest-growing experiences in ChatGPT, enabling users to create, edit, and transform images through natural language. Recent advances in our multimodal image models have dramatically improved image quality, instruction following, editing precision, consistency, and text rendering, unlocking entirely new creative and professional workflows. We work at the intersection of research, infrastructure, and product to build the systems that power image generation at global scale. Our team partners closely with researchers, product engineers, designers, and platform teams to bring state-of-the-art image capabilities to millions of users while continuously pushing the boundaries of what AI-powered creation can do. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join the Image Generation team and help build the systems that power image creation and editing across ChatGPT. You'll work on the core backend infrastructure that enables users to generate, edit, and iterate on visual content using cutting-edge multimodal AI models. This includes building highly scalable services, orchestration systems, APIs, storage platforms, and distributed infrastructure that support billions of image generations and editing workflows. You'll partner closely with product, research, and mobile teams to transform breakthrough AI capabilities into reliable, performant experiences used by millions around the world. In this role, you will: Design, build, and operate backend systems that power image generation and image editing experiences in ChatGPT. Develop scalable APIs, services, and infrastructure that support multimodal AI workflows. Optimize reliability, latency, throughput, and cost across large-scale distributed systems. Partner with researchers to productionize new im

About the Team The ChatGPT organization at OpenAI supports our mission by building products that bring cutting-edge AI capabilities to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. The Image Generation team is responsible for one of the fastest-growing experiences in ChatGPT, enabling users to create, edit, and transform images through natural language. Recent advances in our multimodal models have dramatically improved image quality, instruction following, editing precision, consistency, and text rendering, unlocking entirely new creative and professional workflows. We work at the intersection of research and product, partnering closely with researchers, designers, product managers, and platform engineers to bring state-of-the-art image generation capabilities to life across ChatGPT and our mobile applications. Millions of users rely on these experiences every day to create, communicate, learn, and build. About the Role We are seeking an experienced Android Software Engineer to build and improve image generation experiences within the ChatGPT Android app. You will help define how users create, edit, and interact with visual content powered by the latest multimodal AI models. This is an opportunity to work on a highly visible product area, translating cutting-edge AI capabilities into intuitive, performant, and delightful mobile experiences used by millions around the world. ChatGPT's Android app already enables users to generate and transform images directly from their devices, and we're just getting started. In this role, you will: Build and ship new Android features that power image generation and image editing experiences. Create intuitive user experiences that make advanced AI capabilities feel seamless and accessible. Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Research, and Engineering teams to bring new multimodal capabilities to production. Drive improvements in app performance, reliability, architecture, testing, and developer tooling. Optimize media-heavy workfl

About the Team The Statsig team is responsible for the experimentation, feature rollout, dynamic configuration, and analytics systems that help OpenAI ship products with speed, safety, and evidence. Teams across ChatGPT, Codex, model measurement, monetization, business subscriptions, developer products, and shared infrastructure rely on Statsig to introduce capabilities safely, measure their impact, and make high-confidence product decisions. About the Role As a Product Lead on the Statsig team, you will define how experimentation, rollout, configuration, and analytics become a simple, reliable, and trusted part of how every OpenAI product team ships. You will set strategy across multiple product and platform workstreams, translate company-wide needs into durable capabilities, and help Statsig become a core part of OpenAI’s product development system. We’re looking for a product leader who combines strong product judgment, technical fluency, and deep analytical thinking. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguous customer needs, influencing teams across the company, and balancing rapid adoption with reliability, usability, and measurement quality. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Travel requirements should be confirmed with the recruiter before publishing. In this role, you will: Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for experimentation, feature management, dynamic configuration, rollout safety, and analytics. Partner with product, engineering, research, data, design, and infrastructure leaders to turn recurring launch and measurement needs into reusable platform capabilities. Develop a deep understanding of workflows across ChatGPT, Codex, model measurement, monetization, subscriptions, and developer products, then establish clear priorities across competing needs. Drive adoption by making sophisticated experimentation and analytics c

About the Team Enterprise Verticals builds role-specific ChatGPT Work experiences for high-value enterprise workflows. We combine product engineering, plugins and skills, connectors, data, evaluations, and customer evidence to turn useful demos into reliable daily work. This opening sits within the Technology vertical inside Enterprise Verticals. The group focuses on repeatable workflows for people at technology companies, beginning with functions such as data and analytics, sales, and design, and carries the shared platform needs—tool integration, permissions, quality measurement, and safe rollout—across those experiences. We work closely with Design, Research, GTM, Security, and platform teams, as well as with customers and design partners. Success means that people can reach a trustworthy first result, understand what the system did, and keep using the workflow—not merely that a prototype exists. About the Role We are looking for an exceptionally experienced, hands-on full-stack engineer to define and build the next generation of AI-powered enterprise workflows. You will take on the hardest and most ambiguous problems in the Technology vertical: translating real customer needs into product direction, designing the systems behind the experience, and personally writing and shipping production-quality code across the stack. You will own the technical direction and end-to-end delivery of products spanning ChatGPT Work surfaces, backend services, plugins, connectors, enterprise data, permissions, and evaluations. You will make foundational architecture and product tradeoffs; establish patterns other engineers can build on; and hold these experiences to a high bar for reliability, security, observability, and customer value. This is an individual-contributor role for an engineer who leads through technical judgment, direct execution, and influence—not people management. You should be equally comfortable working directly with customers, setting direction with senior cro

About the Team The Enterprise Identity team builds the identity foundation that enables organizations to adopt and use OpenAI products securely and reliably. The team owns the enterprise identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, and identity capabilities across the enterprise admin experience and OpenAI's growing multi-product portfolio. About the Role We are looking for a hands-on senior technical leader to own the architecture and evolution of OpenAI's Enterprise Identity systems. You will set the long-term technical vision for the entire stack, establish shared identity primitives across products, and be accountable for systems that are foundational to our enterprise business. This role requires operating well beyond a single service or feature area. You will identify the most consequential architectural investments, align teams around durable solutions, and ensure our identity platform meets an exceptionally high bar for scale, availability, latency, and security. This role will be based in our San Francisco or Mountain View office. In this role, you will: Own the technical vision and architecture for the Enterprise Identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups, permissions, and identity capabilities in enterprise administration surfaces. Lead the design and evolution of highly available, latency-sensitive identity systems serving a large and diverse global enterprise customer base. Establish common identity models and primitives that work consistently across OpenAI's products and enable the organization to scale. Set a high security bar by anticipating abuse cases, failure modes, and the long-term implications of new capabilities. Drive alignment across enterprise product, infrastructure, and security partners, resolving ambiguity and influencing roadmaps beyond the immediate team. Provide technical leadership to senior engineers and raise the quality of architecture and execution across the broader organization. You might thr

About the Team Enterprise Verticals builds role-specific ChatGPT Work experiences for high-value enterprise workflows. We combine product engineering, plugins and skills, connectors, data, evaluations, and customer evidence to turn useful demos into reliable daily work. This opening sits within the Technology vertical inside Enterprise Verticals. The group focuses on repeatable workflows for people at technology companies, beginning with functions such as data and analytics, sales, and design, and carries the shared platform needs—tool integration, permissions, quality measurement, and safe rollout—across those experiences. We work closely with Design, Research, GTM, Security, and platform teams, as well as with customers and design partners. Success means that people can reach a trustworthy first result, understand what the system did, and keep using the workflow—not merely that a prototype exists. About the Role We are looking for a full-stack product engineer who can own ambiguous enterprise workflows end to end: understand a customer problem, shape the product, build across frontend and backend, work through platform dependencies, instrument quality, and learn quickly with design partners. You will build across ChatGPT Work surfaces, services, plugins, connectors, and data or permission boundaries when the experience requires it. You will make quality and rollout observable through evaluations, product and operational signals, and clear fallback or rollback paths. This is a product-engineering role for someone who can move between user problems and system details without losing ownership of either. The strongest candidates will be able to turn specific customer evidence into a generalizable product, explain scope and architecture tradeoffs, and carry a feature from an early prototype through a bounded production rollout. In this role, you will: Build and ship role-specific workflows across ChatGPT Work surfaces, services, plugins, and connectors. Turn customer a

About the Team The Monetization Data Systems team builds the trusted data and product systems that power how the company develops, measures, and improves monetization products. We bring together product usage, pricing, billing, ads, payments, and financial data to help Product, Engineering, Finance, and GTM teams make better decisions and deliver reliable customer experiences. We work at the intersection of data engineering, product engineering, platform engineering, Finance, and GTM. Our goal is to turn complex monetization and financial data into accurate, explainable, and timely data products while building systems that scale with the growth and complexity of the business. About the Role We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of our monetization data platform. You will own high-impact platform systems end to end, from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, observability, and ongoing operation. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys solving ambiguous customer and business problems, designing durable systems, and partnering closely with Product, Data, Finance, Accounting, and GTM. You will help define technical direction, raise the engineering bar, and turn monetization opportunities into reliable, scalable product experiences and platform capabilities. In this role, you will: Design, improve, and operate reliable, scalable backend services that power pricing, billing, ads, payments, entitlements, and other monetization platform capabilities. Own the architecture and implementation of critical workflows relevant to monetization data, data contracts, and integrations across product and business systems. Establish strong guarantees for correctness, availability, security, performance, reconciliation, and auditability across business-critical systems. Build reusable platform capabilities and developer tools that enable product teams to launch, measure, and iterate on monetization products