OpenAI · 1 day ago
Software Engineer, Monetization Delivery
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$255K/yr - $405K/yr
10+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to build the ads delivery platform, focusing on systems that determine when, where, and how monetized experiences appear across OpenAI products.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Architect, build, and optimize the ads delivery platform that serves ads in real time at global scale
Design systems for correctness, safety, and continuous optimization under heavy load
Develop decision engines, ranking logic, and delivery pipelines that require strong performance, reliability, and privacy guarantees
Partner with Product, Design, and Research to define requirements and drive novel solutions to highly complex technical problems
Prototype, experiment, and deploy rapid iterations to improve delivery quality, relevance, and efficiency
Implement infrastructure and services that support ongoing measurement, optimization, and model-based improvements
Ensure operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, performance analysis, and rigorous testing
Contribute to technical strategy and help shape the long-term roadmap of the ads delivery stack
Build safety, fairness, and policy alignment into delivery systems from first principles
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems with strict correctness, reliability, and latency requirements
Built or contributed to delivery, ranking, recommendation, ML-inference, or real-time decisioning systems
Comfortable working across backend, systems engineering, and (optionally) applied ML
Thrive in deeply technical 0→1 problem spaces where architecture, strategy, and implementation must be invented
Strong intuition for system design tradeoffs and the ability to translate product goals into technical decisions
Communicate clearly, think holistically, and reason about long-term system maintainability and sustainability
Preferred
Experience in ads delivery, ranking systems, marketplaces, or ML-driven optimization platforms
Benefits
Relocation assistance
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.
201-500 employees
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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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