Software Engineer, API Frontiers

OpenAI · Core Product & Platform

Location: New York, New York, United States · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote
Metro: New York City, San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: Hybrid
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Pay: $266K–$445K/yr (published by employer)
Posted: 1 month ago
Source: Ashby

What the posting covers

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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