OpenAI · 1 day ago
Software Engineer, Real Time
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior LevelOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The role involves scaling existing systems and building new platforms for real-time communication, requiring experience in full-stack development and real-time communication systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design and build development and production platforms that power our systems
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
Build and provide operational support for globally deployed systems, powering some of the most advanced products in the market. This includes participating in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed
Qualification
Required
Experience with full-stack development
Experience with Real-Time Communication (RTC)
Experience with scaled real-time communication systems in production
Significant experience building (and rebuilding) production systems to deliver new product capabilities and handle increasing scale
Experience with real-time communication products and systems, including audio and video calling, WebRTC or competing protocols, encoding/decoding, signaling, lip sync, etc
Care deeply about user experience and take pride in building products that solve customer needs
Humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
Ownership of problems end-to-end and willingness to pick up any necessary knowledge to get the job done
Preferred
Experience in Machine Learning techniques
Experience as a startup founder or an early-stage engineer
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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