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OpenAI · 15 hours ago

Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The role involves designing and implementing systems to enhance developer productivity and collaborating with various teams to address their needs.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Drive the design, development, and implementation of tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering velocity, reduce manual effort, and increase the quality of output
Use our latest AI tools to re-think how we can be the most productive team in the industry
Work closely with various teams within OpenAI to understand their workflows, challenges, and needs, and ensure the tools and systems built by the Engineering Acceleration team address these requirements
Bring new features and research capabilities to the world by partnering with product engineers to lay the necessary technical foundations
Guide and advise product engineering teams on best practices for ensuring observable, scalable 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

Infrastructure buildingKubernetesTerraformPythonFastAPIPostgresKafkaEmpathyCommunicationAdaptability

Required

5+ years of experience in engineering, including 3+ years of experience in infrastructure building tooling for developers
Experience-driven empathy for the tools, frustrations, and processes that slow engineering teams down and lead to toil or burnout
A voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills—and an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others
Comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions, viewing changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessary

Benefits

Relocation assistance

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)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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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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