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OpenAI · 11 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer, ChatGPT for Work

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. In this role, you will help build and deploy the ChatGPT for Work product, collaborating with various teams to enhance features and ensure system reliability.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Partner with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world
Accelerate engineering productivity by empowering your fellow engineers with excellent tooling and systems
Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

Qualification

Engineering principlesBuilding production systemsUser experience focusTool buildingProblem ownershipStartup experienceTeam collaboration

Required

Deep understanding of engineering principles, industry best practices, and emerging technologies within their domain
Have meaningful experience with building (and rebuilding) production systems to deliver new product capabilities and to handle increasing scale
Care deeply about the end user experience and take pride in building products to solve customer needs
Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
Build tools to accelerate your own (and your teammates') workflows, but only when off-the-shelf solutions won't do
Have been a startup founder or an early-stage engineer

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$79B
Key Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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