Software Engineer, Gov

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Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI’s ideas safely to the world.

About the Team

The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. The team seeks to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is prioritized over unfettered growth.

About the Role

We are seeking Software Engineers who can solve complex, high-impact problems across the stack. You will join a nimble team driving the deployment of OpenAI’s technology into new environments and infrastructure that power critical missions in the public sector. You will work cross-functionally with product, security, and compliance teams to build functionality needed to deliver a scalable, reliable platform, and partner directly with customers to design and build products and features that create real-world impact. Work includes launching new capabilities and optimizing how inference is served in unique, high-stakes environments.

This role is based in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, CA, or Seattle, WA. The workplace type is hybrid. Occasional travel to customer sites is required.

Responsibilities

• Own development of new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features end-to-end, both on-premises and in the cloud, for public sector customers.
• Partner and embed with teams across engineering, security, and compliance to enable products to work within the unique constraints of new environments.
• Talk to users to understand their problems and design solutions.
• Work with research teams to get feedback and iterate on models; develop solutions specific to public sector customers at both model and data layers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations to create cutting-edge products.
• Optimize applications for speed and scale.

Requirements

• US Citizen (listed as a requirement).
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies.
• Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies.
• Proficiency with some backend language (the team uses Python).
• Some experience with infrastructure primitives such as Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required).
• Ability to move fast in loosely defined environments with competing priorities and deadlines.
• Interest in enabling public sector use cases with unique requirements.

Benefits

• Salary range: $255K–$405K (base pay may vary depending on market location, knowledge, skills, and experience). Total compensation may include equity and performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave, flexible PTO, paid company holidays, and paid sick/safe time as required by law.
• Mental health and wellness support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend; daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.