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OpenAI · 18 hours ago

Software Engineer, Gov

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking Software Engineers to solve complex problems and drive the deployment of OpenAI’s technology into public sector environments, working cross-functionally to build scalable and reliable platforms.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Responsibilities

Own the development of new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features end-to-end, both on-premises and in the cloud, for our public sector customers
Partner and directly embed with teams across the business, including engineering, security, and compliance, to enable our products to work within the unique constraints of new environments
Talk to users to understand their problems and design solutions to address them
Work with the research team to get relevant feedback and iterate on their latest models, developing solutions specific for public sector customers at both the model & data layers
Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations folks to create cutting-edge products
Optimize applications for speed and scale

Qualification

JavaScriptReactPythonKubernetesTerraformAI/ML interestCross-functional collaborationProblem-solving

Required

US Citizen
5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies
Proficiency with some backend language (we use Python)
Some experience with underlying infrastructure primitives like Kubernetes and Terraform
Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)
Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines
An interest in enabling public sector use cases with unique requirements

Company

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

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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