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Software Engineer, API Frontiers

New York, NY · On-site

$266K - $445K/yr

About the Team API Frontiers turns OpenAI's frontier models into production APIs that developers ... Improve request-processing performance and tail latency through profiling, efficient systems code ...

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Software Engineer, Localization

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$347K - $445K/yr

About the Team OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of ... About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer on the Internationalization team, you will build the ...

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Software Engineer, Fleet Management

New York, NY · On-site

$230K - $490K/yr

... performance, and efficiency. Our work enables OpenAI's models to operate seamlessly at scale ... About the Role The Software Engineer, Operating Systems & Orchestration will focus on building ...

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Software Engineer, Ads Manager

Seattle, WA · On-site

$347K - $445K/yr

Monetization plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to continue pushing the boundaries of AI ... improve campaign performance. * Create self-serve workflows that help small and mid-sized ...

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Capacity Systems Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$293K - $385K/yr

About the Team OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is responsible for planning, delivering ... performance. The Capacity Systems team builds the software platforms, data systems, and automation ...

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Robotics Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$255K - $325K/yr

About the Role We're seeking talented Robotics Software Engineers to expand our robotics data ... About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general ...

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Software Engineer, Codex Enterprise

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$230K - $385K/yr

Our team is a fast-moving group within OpenAI, bringing together research, engineering, design, and ... performance, and user experience. * Are proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python ...

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Software Engineer, Build Systems / CI

New York, NY · On-site

$185K - $490K/yr

Our mission is to make OpenAI one of the most productive engineering organizations in the world ... Improve CI performance and reliability across Buildkite pipelines, including queue time, build time ...

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Software Engineer, Cloud Agents

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$347K - $445K/yr

... for OpenAI products and developers building on OpenAI. About the Role We are looking for an ... Improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency for long-running agents. * Deploy ...

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Software Engineer, API SDK

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$293K - $385K/yr

About the Team Our team brings OpenAI's most capable technology to the world through our developer ... About the Role We are looking for a software engineer to help build the official SDKs that power ...

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Software Engineer, API SDK

New York, NY · On-site

$293K - $385K/yr

About the Team Our team brings OpenAI's most capable technology to the world through our developer ... About the Role We are looking for a software engineer to help build the official SDKs that power ...

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Software Engineer, API Frontiers

New York, NY • On-site

OpenAI
Scientific Research and Development Services • 201 - 500 employees
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$266K - $445K/yr

Full-time

Posted 3 days ago

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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 role, you will:
  • Design, build, and operate APIs and backend services that bring frontier model capabilities to developers.
  • Partner with Research, Safety, Codex, and API teams to define API behavior and deliver safe, staged launches.
  • Build API capabilities for agent workflows, including task delegation, context sharing, and parallel execution.
  • Strengthen long-running request reliability across timeouts, cancellation, streaming, and background execution.
  • Improve request-processing performance and tail latency through profiling, efficient systems code, and persistent connections.
  • Turn developer feedback and production failures into better observability, diagnostics, and lasting product improvements.

Your background might look something like:
  • 5+ years of experience building and operating backend services or developer-facing APIs in production.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, with practical knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency, and asynchronous execution.
  • Ability to diagnose production failures and performance bottlenecks using observability data and profiling.
  • Product judgment and developer empathy, with a track record of translating complex capabilities into clear, dependable APIs.
  • Experience taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems, from defining an approach through shipping and improving the result.
  • Clear communication and effective collaboration across engineering, research, product, and safety disciplines.
  • Experience with Rust, streaming protocols or WebSockets, or long-running workflow systems is a plus.

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 that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI's Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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