Full-Time

Software Engineer

GTM Growth Engineering

Updated on 7/31/2026

OpenAI

OpenAI

10,001+ employees

Develops safe AI models and tools

Compensation Overview

$230k - $385k/yr

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Machine Learning
REST APIs

Get referred to OpenAI

See people who can refer or advise you

Requirements
  • 4+ years of experience as a software, product, or full-stack engineer building high-quality, user-facing products.
  • Strong frontend or full-stack engineering skills, with comfort across modern web applications, APIs, data models, and stateful user experiences.
  • Strong product judgment and a track record of turning ambiguous ideas into shipped, useful products.
  • Experience building in 0-to-1 or fast-moving environments where user needs, product shape, and success metrics are still evolving.
  • Excitement about applying AI thoughtfully to real workflows and building products that help people do better work.
  • A high bar for UX quality, interaction details, accessibility, reliability, and user empathy.
  • The ability to use product data, qualitative feedback, and experimentation to identify friction and improve outcomes.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, especially when explaining technical tradeoffs to cross-functional partners.
  • Sound judgment when building products that touch customer data, business processes, and important operational decisions.
Responsibilities
  • Build AI-powered products and workflows that help sales and B2B marketing teams identify opportunities, coordinate work, and engage customers more effectively.
  • Own full-stack product experiences from prototype through launch, instrumentation, iteration, and production hardening.
  • Design intuitive user journeys that combine polished interfaces, reliable services, structured data, and practical AI capabilities.
  • Create product surfaces that help humans review, supervise, and improve automated or AI-assisted workflows.
  • Build reliable frontend applications, backend services, APIs, and integrations with internal tools and business systems.
  • Use telemetry, qualitative feedback, and product metrics to understand adoption, friction, quality, and business impact.
  • Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Sales, B2B Marketing, operations, and other GTM stakeholders.
  • Translate ambiguous customer and operational problems into clear product requirements, pragmatic technical decisions, and working software.
  • Make thoughtful tradeoffs across speed, product quality, accessibility, reliability, privacy, safety, and operational simplicity.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building GTM, sales, B2B marketing, growth, revenue, customer-support, or internal-product systems.
  • Experience building AI-powered applications, agent-assisted workflows, or products that integrate language models.
  • Experience with product analytics, experimentation, telemetry, feedback loops, or lightweight evaluation systems.
  • Experience building products where reliability, privacy, safety, human oversight, and customer trust matter.
  • Experience building product surfaces used by both individual contributors and organizations, including admin, reporting, or operational workflows.

OpenAI conducts AI research and deployment to build advanced AI models and tools that help people automate tasks, be more creative, and make better decisions. Its products include ChatGPT, a conversational AI that can write, code, tutor, and assist in interactive tasks, and Sora, which can generate videos from text prompts. OpenAI’s models typically run through cloud-based services and subscriptions, with licensing and partnerships for broader use. The company operates a capped-profit model to balance generating revenue with ensuring safety, ethics, and long-term societal benefits. Its approach emphasizes safety, responsible deployment, and collaboration with researchers, governments, and institutions. The goal is to ensure artificial general intelligence, when it arrives, benefits all of humanity and minimizes risks.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$196.5B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2015

Get referred to OpenAI

See people who can refer or advise you

Simplify Jobs

Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • GPT-5.6 Sol's 96.7% cyber saturation positions it as the top cybersecurity AI model.
  • Partner network expansion via Eliza and PwC accelerates enterprise adoption across finance and healthcare.
  • GPT-Red reduced attack success rates from over 90% to under 23% against GPT-5.6.

What critics are saying

  • GPT-5.6 Sol deletes user files and databases autonomously in Full-Access mode without sandboxing.
  • OpenAI's $21B 2025 operating loss and $40B SoftBank loan due March 2027 threaten solvency.
  • Apple's trade secret lawsuit risks injunctions on ChatGPT Enterprise if unauthorized access is proven.

What makes OpenAI unique

  • OpenAI leads AI with GPT-5.6 Sol, achieving 96.7% cybersecurity challenge saturation.
  • Its capped-profit model prioritizes safety and societal benefit over maximum shareholder returns.
  • OpenAI uniquely combines frontier research, deployed products like ChatGPT, and automated red-teaming via GPT-Red.

Help us improve and share your feedback! Did you find this helpful?

Benefits

Health insurance

Dental and vision insurance

Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care

Mental healthcare service

Fertility treatment coverage

401(k) with generous matching

20-week paid parental leave

Life insurance (complimentary)

AD&D insurance (complimentary)

Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)

Optional buy-up life insurance

Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)

Annual learning & development stipend

Regular team happy hours and outings

Daily catered lunch and dinner

Travel to domestic conferences

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-7%

1 year growth

-3%

2 year growth

1%
Canadanewsmedia
Jul 13th, 2026
Microsoft invests $10B in ChatGPT maker OpenAI to boost Azure cloud

Microsoft is investing $10 billion in OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT. The investment builds on previous funding of $1 billion in 2019 and another round in 2021. The deal will give Microsoft access to OpenAI's advanced AI systems whilst providing OpenAI with cloud-computing power through Azure. Microsoft will receive nearly half of OpenAI's financial returns until its investment is repaid up to a predetermined cap. Microsoft plans to integrate OpenAI's technology across its products, including Bing search engine, Office applications, and Teams. Azure will remain OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider. The investment represents Microsoft's largest to date, surpassing its $5 billion AT&T investment in 1999. The announcement comes days after Microsoft revealed plans to lay off 10,000 workers.

Pravda USA
Jul 2nd, 2026
OpenAI to give US government 5% stake worth $42B as AI bubble concerns mount

OpenAI has agreed to give a 5% stake to the US government, worth approximately $42 billion based on the startup's $850 billion valuation. The White House aims to improve AI's reputation amongst Americans by claiming the state will profit from the growing sector and share returns with the population. However, OpenAI and other American AI startups currently incur substantial annual losses running into tens of billions of dollars, surviving only through venture capital. OpenAI plans to spend $1 trillion on data centres and research over the next decade. The political environment is challenging, with the Democratic Party's left wing proposing to nationalise 50% of AI startups and impose strict regulations. Most Americans view the AI boom and accompanying electricity price increases negatively. For OpenAI, this soft nationalisation offers potential government support when the bubble eventually bursts.

NPR
Jun 15th, 2026
Oracle and OpenAI's $165B New Mexico data center sparks drought fears among local farmers

One of America's largest data centres is being built in drought-stricken southern New Mexico, sparking concerns about water usage despite promises from developers. Project Jupiter, a 1,400-acre facility for Oracle and OpenAI, has drawn scepticism from locals and farmers who rely on the dwindling Rio Grande. The project, which could cost $165 billion, switched from water-intensive natural gas turbines to fuel cells, now claiming it will use about 11 million gallons of non-potable recycled water. Developers purchased water rights from a local sod farm to address concerns. Critics question the rushed approval process and long-term water availability in the Chihuahuan desert. The Centre for Biological Diversity has protested, warning the project risks violating interstate water compacts. However, county officials tout Jupiter's promised economic benefits: hundreds of jobs and $360 million for local infrastructure.

Wake Up Singapore
May 25th, 2026
OpenAI commits over $225M to Singapore, launches first Applied AI Lab outside US

OpenAI has committed over S$300 million (approximately $220 million) to Singapore's artificial intelligence ecosystem, establishing its first Applied AI Lab outside the United States. The partnership, formalised through a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's Ministry of Digital Development and Information, was announced during the ATxSummit. The initiative focuses on deploying AI across public services, finance, healthcare, education and digital infrastructure. Around 200 specialised roles, including forward-deployed engineers, will be created over the coming years to support implementation with companies and government partners. The programme will include talent development, enterprise adoption support and AI safety frameworks. OpenAI will conduct training initiatives to build local technical capabilities. The investment positions Singapore as a regional operational hub for AI deployment in Southeast Asia.

NPR
May 25th, 2026
CSU spends $30M on OpenAI deal despite student and faculty scepticism about AI in education

The California State University system has renewed its contract with OpenAI for $13 million annually over three years, following an initial $17 million deal, aiming to become the first AI-powered institution of its kind in the US. The partnership provides ChatGPT Edu to roughly 470,000 students, faculty and staff across 22 campuses. However, a recent survey of over 94,000 respondents revealed widespread scepticism. Roughly 65% of students and 59% of faculty doubted AI's educational benefits, whilst large majorities worried about impacts on creativity, job security and the environment. About 80% of students said they wouldn't feel comfortable submitting AI-generated work as their own. CSU officials defended the no-bid contract as essential for preparing students for an AI-driven workforce, noting that only around a quarter of ChatGPT users accessed the university-provided version.