Used Tools & Technologies
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Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Kubernetes @ 3
MySQL @ 3
Java @ 3
React @ 3
Experimentation @ 4
Internationalization @ 4
Reporting @ 4
Compliance @ 4
AI @ 4
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
OpenAI’s Internationalization team builds the infrastructure that enables OpenAI products to ship globally by default. The team develops systems that power localization, international product launches, and high-quality global user experiences across OpenAI products.
About the Team
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. A majority of our users interact with our products in languages other than English, and our products must work seamlessly across languages, regions, and cultures.
The Internationalization team builds the infrastructure that enables OpenAI products to ship globally by default. We develop the systems that power localization, international product launches, and high-quality global user experiences across all OpenAI products.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Internationalization team, you will build the systems that power localization and international product launches at OpenAI. You’ll work on the platform that manages product content, translation workflows, and localization infrastructure across our products.
This role sits at the intersection of AI systems, developer platforms, and product infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale OpenAI’s localization, content, and experimentation platform used across OpenAI product teams, including open-source components:
- Develop AI-powered translation pipelines combined with human-in-the-loop review workflows.
- Design systems that reliably deliver localized product content across web and mobile apps.
- Build tools that enable linguists and localization teams to review and improve translations.
- Develop developer tooling that simplifies localization and internationalization workflows.
- Build and maintain internationalization libraries used across OpenAI products:
- Design systems that correctly handle numbers, currencies, dates, and pluralization across locales.
- Improve support for multilingual interfaces and right-to-left languages.
- Partner with product teams to improve the international readiness of new features.
Requirements / Preferred Experience
- Strong software engineering experience building backend or full-stack systems.
- Familiarity with Java, React, MySQL, and cloud infrastructure patterns such as object storage, containerized services, and Kubernetes.
- Experience or interest in building platforms and internal tools used by many teams.
- Experience with or appreciation for open-source software and developer tooling.
- Interest in combining AI systems with human workflows (e.g., AI-powered translation plus human review).
- Care about product quality and global user experience; appreciation for cultural and linguistic differences across regions. Multilingual proficiency is a plus.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides information about applicant privacy, accommodations, and compliance reporting in the job posting.
Benefits
- Base pay varies depending on location, knowledge, skills, and experience; total compensation includes equity and potential performance-related bonuses.
- 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) retirement plan with employer match.
- Paid parental leave and paid medical/caregiver leave.
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
- 13+ paid company holidays and multiple coordinated company office closures, plus paid sick or 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.
- Additional taxable fringe benefits (charitable donation matching, wellness stipends) as may be provided.