Software Engineer

OpenAI’s charter calls on us to ensure the benefits of AI are distributed widely. Our Health AI team is focused on enabling universal access to high-quality medical information. We work at the intersection of healthcare applications and safety research, aiming to create trustworthy AI models that can assist medical professionals and improve patient outcomes. 

We’re seeking skilled backend and fullstack software engineers who are passionate about building scalable, reliable systems to support AI applications in beneficial areas like healthcare. As a member of the Applied team, you will develop, maintain, and optimize the infrastructure and tools that ensure the reliability, performance, and compliance of our products.

In this role, you will:

• Design and build scalable backend and fullstack systems to support beneficial AI applications.

• Implement robust data management pipelines, ensuring compliance with external standards.

• Own end-to-end development of features, from specification through deployment and iteration.

Collaborate with research scientists and engineers to integrate safety and reliability features into the AI development lifecycle.

• Debug and optimize systems to improve performance, maintainability, and scalability.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are excited about OpenAI’s mission of ensuring AGI is universally beneficial and are aligned with OpenAI’s charter.

• Demonstrate a passion for building systems that improve global outcomes, including in areas like healthcare.

• Have 2+ years of experience writing maintainable, high-quality backend or fullstack code.

• Possess strong engineering intuition and can write clean, scalable, and generalizable code.

• Have experience with compliant enterprise product development or data handling.

• Enjoy working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment with cross-functional teams.

• Stay goal-oriented rather than method-oriented and are unafraid of tackling unglamorous but impactful work when needed.

• Can work independently, taking ownership of problems and driving them to completion.

• Are enthusiastic about engaging with ambiguity and contributing to a growing team.

Bonus if you have:

• Experience with health-related or compliance-heavy systems.

• Hands-on knowledge of large-scale distributed systems, data pipelines, or backend architecture.

• A strong product engineering sense, with the ability to take a spec and bring it to life with minimal supervision.

•A track record of contributing to open-source projects or maintaining high-quality external code repositories.

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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