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OpenAI · 5 hours ago

Backend Software Engineer - B2B Applications

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking backend engineers to design and scale the systems that drive their developer and enterprise-facing products, focusing on architecting and maintaining services and infrastructure.

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

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end development lifecycle for new platform capabilities and integrations with other systems
Collaborate closely with product, design and external customers to understand problems and implement effective solutions
Work with the research team to improve our next generation of models

Qualification

Backend languagesDistributed systemsInfrastructure developmentAI/ML interestCollaborationProblem-solvingAdaptability

Required

7+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies
Are proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Typescript or similar) and distributed systems concepts
Enjoy building infrastructure that supports billions of requests and petabytes of data
Care deeply about reliability, safety, and performance in production environments
Proven ability to thrive in fast-growing, product-driven companies by effectively navigating loosely defined tasks and managing competing priorities or deadlines

Preferred

Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch is a plus
Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)

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
Represents job field similar to this job
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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