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Software Engineer – GTM Innovation – Backend
| Company | OpenAI |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $255000 – $325000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a software/ML/product engineer working on user-facing systems
- Deep experience building and scaling backend systems, including designing robust APIs, working with streaming and asynchronous architectures, and applying best practices in observability, testing, and performance monitoring
- Comfortable with database design and technologies across both SQL and NoSQL systems
- Built or prototyped LLM-powered workflows using the OpenAI API (or similar)
Responsibilities
- Build high-impact applications and tools that accelerate OpenAI’s go-to-market efforts
- Work across the full product lifecycle for GTM: prototype, iterate, ship, and maintain
- Embed with Sales, Technical Success, and Revenue Operations to identify user needs and build for them
- Apply OpenAI’s models in novel ways to solve real-world customer and internal workflow problems
- Translate learnings into feedback for Applied and Research teams to inform product development
Preferred Qualifications
- Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch is a plus
- Take initiative, move quickly, and operate with a strong sense of ownership
- Enjoy working closely with end users and shaping 0→1 products
- Are collaborative, curious, and motivated to make an outsized impact at the frontier of AI
