Software Engineer, Ad Formats

Details

The Monetization team is a cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build privacy-preserving monetization products, including next-generation advertising experiences. The team operates in a greenfield environment, using prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment to develop ad experiences across OpenAI products, including ChatGPT.

The role focuses on building the creative rendering and presentation layer of OpenAI's ads ecosystem. This includes defining how ads are structured, rendered, validated, and delivered across surfaces, platforms, and media types.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale creative rendering and presentation systems for ads experiences.
• Develop infrastructure and tooling for text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive ad formats.
• Define how ads are structured, rendered, validated, and delivered across ChatGPT and other OpenAI product experiences.
• Build systems that render reliably, perform efficiently, and meet high quality standards across platforms.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Research to prototype and ship ad experiences that feel native to ChatGPT.
• Architect distributed systems and services with strong reliability, usability, privacy, and performance guarantees.
• Drive 0-to-1 product development through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment.
• Contribute to technical strategy and help shape the roadmap for OpenAI's ads formats platform.
• Maintain engineering rigor through testing, documentation, observability, and operational best practices.
• Uphold safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance across ad rendering and delivery systems.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building high-scale consumer product experiences, creative systems, ads systems, or platform infrastructure.
• Experience architecting and delivering complex systems that power user-facing experiences across multiple surfaces.
• Strong focus on product quality, performance, reliability, and rendering details.
• Comfort working across frontend systems, backend infrastructure, design, and product strategy.
• Strong product intuition and ability to collaborate with Product, Design, and Research.
• Experience working in 0-to-1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences are defined from scratch.
• Clear communication, holistic thinking, and decision-making grounded in user needs and long-term sustainability.
• Motivation to build privacy-preserving, safe, and user-first monetization systems.
• Bonus experience with ad formats, creative rendering systems, content delivery, design systems, media platforms, or interactive product experiences.

Benefits

• Equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and comprehensive benefits.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and paid office closures.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.

This role is exclusively based at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters. The compensation range is $230,000–$385,000 USD in base pay, plus equity and other compensation components.