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OpenAI

<div>
 
 About The Team
 
 
 
 Our team brings OpenAI&rsquo;s most capable technology to the world through our developer platform: the OpenAI API. As the leading AI development platform, our API is used by millions of developers and the majority of enterprises around the world, and powers the majority of AI applications that you may use on a daily basis. Most recently, we&rsquo;ve released gpt-5, gpt-realtime, Responses API, Agents SDK, and many other products and features.
 
 
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 We are looking for a software engineer to own the design of our APIs. Our API
 
 is
 
 our product, and as such we treat its design and development with care and intentionality. Every endpoint, every field name, and every enum value is a product interface that we want to design well. We are looking for engineers who not only love building APIs, but who will also sweat the details around API design and have a discerning taste for well designed API experience. You will play a major role in shaping the future roadmap of the OpenAI API &ndash; by both building and designing it.
 
 
 
 In This Role, You Will
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Design and build products that we launch in API &ndash; extending existing endpoints, adding new endpoints, or rethinking our entire API suite.
 </li>
 <li>
 Play a major role in our API Review process &ndash; working with all other teams to ensure our APIs meet our design standard.
 </li>
 <li>
 Collaborate closely with the rest of the API team, our Developer Experience team, and our GTM team to make our APIs the best in the world.
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 You Might Thrive In This Role If You
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Appreciate taste in API design &ndash; you believe there are well designed APIs and poorly designed APIs
 </li>
 <li>
 Can thrive and operate independently in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous requirements and goals
 </li>
 <li>
 Love building for other developers, and thrive on feedback from opinionated users
 </li>
 <li>
 Are an engineer at heart, but are willing to lean into product decisions.
 </li>
 <li>
 Think of APIs as ladders.
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 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.
 
 
 We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
 
 
 For additional information, please see OpenAI&rsquo;s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
 
 
 Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
 
 
 To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
 
 
 We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
 
 
 OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
 
 
 At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
</div>

Backend Software Engineer, API Platform

Handshake

<div>
 
 About Handshake
 
 
 
 Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.
 
 
 In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We&rsquo;ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.
 
 
 
 Why Join Handshake Now
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel
 </li>
 <li>
 Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world&rsquo;s top educational institutions
 </li>
 <li>
 Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders
 </li>
 <li>
 Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 About Handshake AI
 
 
 
 Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs, working on their most complex data at the largest scale.
 
 
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 We&rsquo;re hiring a
 
 Software Engineer
 
 to build our Reinforcement Learning Environments (RLE) platform&mdash;the interactive systems where frontier AI models learn to complete real-world work.
 
 
 This role owns meaningful components end-to-end and plays a key part in scaling systems that power model training and evaluation.
 
 
 
 Location:
 
 San Francisco, CA (in-office, 5 days/week)
 
 
 What You&rsquo;ll Do
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Build and scale core components of RLE environments and infrastructure
 </li>
 <li>
 Design and implement backend systems and data pipelines
 </li>
 <li>
 Translate ambiguous product and research needs into production systems
 </li>
 <li>
 Develop modular, reusable workflow domains
 </li>
 <li>
 Improve reliability, observability, and system performance
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 What We&rsquo;re Looking For
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 2&ndash;4 years of experience in backend, distributed systems, or ML-adjacent infrastructure
 </li>
 <li>
 Strong proficiency in ReactJS and TypeScript
 </li>
 <li>
 Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and data modeling
 </li>
 <li>
 Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) and CI/CD
 </li>
 <li>
 Ability to independently drive projects from design to production
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 Nice to Have
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Experience with simulation systems or evaluation platforms
 </li>
 <li>
 Exposure to ML systems or working with research teams
 </li>
 <li>
 Experience in fast-moving, operations-heavy environments
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 What Success Looks Like
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Owns and delivers key RLE components end-to-end
 </li>
 <li>
 Improves system scalability and developer velocity
 </li>
 <li>
 Enables faster launch of new domains with high-quality data
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 Perks
 
 
 
 Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported&mdash;and thrive at work and in life.
 
 
 The below benefits are for full-time US employees.
 
 
 🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
 
 
 💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
 
 
 🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
 
 
 💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
 
 
 📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
 
 
 💻 Office: Commuting support, free lunch, and gym in our SF office
 
 
 🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
 
 
 🤝 Connection: Team outings &amp; referral bonuses
 
 
 Compensation Range: $157.5K - $175K
 
 
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Software Engineer I, RLE

Column

<div>
 
 About Column
 
 
 
 For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand &mdash; builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve.
 
 
 At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us!
 
 
 
 The Opportunity
 
 
 
 You&rsquo;ll be responsible for building and maintaining the systems that power everything at Column - from our payments stack to developer tools to core platform services. This role is perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, software, and financial systems. Expect to own core parts of our infrastructure and shape the technical foundation of a company moving billions of dollars per day.
 
 
 Read more about Life @ Column and our hiring process here. 🚀
 
 
 What You&rsquo;ll Do
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Build and maintain critical infrastructure: compute, storage, networking, security, and observability systems
 </li>
 <li>
 Own core banking infrastructure, including direct integrations with the Federal Reserve and real-time payment networks
 </li>
 <li>
 Design and implement CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and release engineering workflows
 </li>
 <li>
 Improve system resiliency and availability through better monitoring, testing, and automation
 </li>
 <li>
 Lead platform initiatives like authentication/authorization, change data capture, and cross-cutting APIs
 </li>
 <li>
 Operate close to the metal: optimize performance, reliability, and correctness across our systems
 </li>
 <li>
 Uphold the highest standards for system safety, especially in a regulated, mission-critical environment
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 What You&rsquo;ll Get From Us
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 🏥 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents!
 </li>
 <li>
 🐣 Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses
 </li>
 <li>
 🏡 Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Column&rsquo;s office
 </li>
 <li>
 💳 FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses
 </li>
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 📈 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options
 </li>
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 🌴 Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge
 </li>
 <li>
 👶 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers
 </li>
 <li>
 😇 Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare
 </li>
 <li>
 🍽️ Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees
 </li>
 <li>
 🚆 Commuter benefits, including paid transportation to-and-from the office
 </li>
 <li>
 🎉 Regular team building events, including annual offsite
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 Pay Transparency
 
 
 
 Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
 
 
 The annual US base salary range for this role is $130,000-$250,000 + equity.
 
 
 
 We look forward to hearing from you
 
 
 
 Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
 
 
 If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com.
 
 
 We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here.
</div>

Software Engineer

Comulate

<div>
 At Comulate, we&rsquo;re transforming the insurance back office with AI. Our platform, which reinvents expensive and time-consuming accounting processes, is the first step in our vision to unlock the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on manual insurance operations.
 
 
 Our Series B, announced in early 2025, led by BOND &amp; Workday, comes on the heels of record growth and accelerating expansion plans.
 
 
 Why you should consider joining
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Record-setting growth, having gone from zero to 8-figure ARR within three years of founding, representing 95th+ percentile company growth among startups that achieve these milestones
 </li>
 <li>
 Strong product market fit revealed in growth and through customer love, with users describing the platform as &ldquo;the best thing since sliced bread&rdquo; and "life-changing"
 </li>
 <li>
 Our lean, talented team is creating category-defining products for large public and private enterprises, driving 7-figure ROI and cash-flow positive operations, providing the best of both worlds: outsized employee ownership and low company risk
 </li>
 <li>
 We're continuing to take big, ambitious first-to-market bets for a highly committed customer base and an exciting pipeline of new customers
 </li>
 <li>
 We&rsquo;re in the early innings of our vision and poised to take advantage of the massive opportunity to deploy AI into core workflows throughout the insurance industry
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 We&rsquo;re hiring software engineers to join us onsite in San Francisco. You&rsquo;ll build critical systems, services, and customer-facing features end-to-end. You&rsquo;ll be doing a lot of zero to one, breaking down high-level goals, diving into ambiguity and experimenting to find the best solutions. As an early employee, you&rsquo;ll also contribute heavily to building the company&rsquo;s team and culture.
 
 
 Our stack: TypeScript, React, Node, Postgres, GraphQL (Apollo), Next.js
 
 
 Learn more about our engineering culture and learnings on our engineering blog.
 
 
 You might be a good fit if you have/are
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 1+ years of experience as a software engineer
 </li>
 <li>
 A strong desire to directly understand customer problems and design solutions for them
 </li>
 <li>
 Demonstrated abilities in one part of the stack (e.g. front-end / back-end)
 </li>
 <li>
 Desire for self-directed learning quickly in an early-stage startup environment
 </li>
 <li>
 Familiarity or interest in Typescript, React, GraphQL, Postgres, or Next.js
 </li>
 <li>
 Not required: insurance knowledge &ndash; we promise, you&rsquo;ll pick up the necessary pieces fast!
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 Our team &amp; philosophy
 
 
 We&rsquo;re backed by BOND, Spark Capital, Neo, and Workday, as well as founders/executives from Brex, Asana, Plaid, Applied Intuition, Coalition, and more.
 
 
 Our team hails from companies like Airbnb, Google, Brex, and LiveRamp and we&rsquo;re fairly low-profile: focusing the majority of our energy on delivering for customers and building a category-defining company.
 
 
 We&rsquo;re hiring predominantly in San Francisco 🌁, as we believe in-person collaboration is strategically important for a company at our stage &mdash; both for velocity and company culture.
 
 
 
 Benefits
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Competitive base salary and generous equity
 </li>
 <li>
 Generous medical, dental, and vision benefits
 </li>
 <li>
 401K plan enrollment
 </li>
 <li>
 Flexible time-off policy
 </li>
 <li>
 Lunch &amp; dinner every day
 </li>
 <li>
 Paid parental leave
 </li>
 <li>
 Company outings and offsites
 </li>
 <li>
 (and more benefits as we grow!)
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 Comulate is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
 
 
 
 Compensation Range: $140K - $200K
 
 
</div>

Notion

<div>
 
 About Us
 
 
 
 Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life&rsquo;s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email&mdash;with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.
 
 
 In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.
 
 
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 As an engineer at Notion, you&rsquo;ll help shape core user experiences and accelerate how people discover value in Notion. You'll tackle meaningful challenges with increasing autonomy, crafting code that millions of users will experience. You'll take ownership of projects that matter, make critical technical decisions, and contribute your unique perspective to our product vision. Working alongside passionate experts across design, product, and data, you'll help shape the future of how people work.
 
 
 We're looking for an New Grad AI Engineer to join as a strategic partner in shaping Notion's AI vision. You'll work on cutting-edge AI-powered features, leveraging LLMs, embeddings, and other AI technologies to make Notion more intelligent and capable.
 
 
 
 Role
 
 
 
 This role may be aligned to one of multiple AI-focused teams at Notion. Depending on team match and business needs, you could work on:
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 AI product engineering: building model-powered features end-to-end (UX, APIs, retrieval, orchestration, quality, and reliability)
 </li>
 <li>
 Model &amp; systems engineering: improving model integration and performance (latency, cost, safety, robustness) and building the infrastructure that supports model serving and experimentation
 </li>
 <li>
 Evaluation &amp; quality (evals): creating evaluation frameworks and automated/ human-in-the-loop testing to measure and improve model and product quality
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 What You&rsquo;ll Achieve
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Partner with your team to prototype and ship an AI-powered product improvement
 </li>
 <li>
 Own a scoped productionization project: integrate a new model/technique into an existing workflow, add monitoring + guardrails, or improve latency/cost/reliability.
 </li>
 <li>
 Contribute to evals and iteration loops: build or extend an evaluation set, run experiments, analyze results, and translate learnings into product or system changes.
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 Qualifications
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Pursuing a bachelor's or master&rsquo;s degree in computer science, engineering, or another related field. Must be able to start full time prior to July 27, 2026.
 </li>
 <li>
 Previous internship experience.
 </li>
 <li>
 Working towards a proficiency of one or more programming languages such as Typescript, React, Python, etc.
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 Skills You'll Need To Bring
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Expertise building and prototyping: You&rsquo;re excited to build and iterate quickly, and you&rsquo;ve started exploring AI/ML through coursework, projects, internships, or hackathons. You&rsquo;re comfortable learning how different parts of a product fit together (UI, APIs, data), have some familiarity with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL, and can take an idea from prototype to a working feature with guidance.
 </li>
 <li>
 Problem-solving: You&rsquo;re curious and methodical. You ask good questions, break down ambiguous problems into smaller pieces, and iterate with feedback from teammates. You think about how what you build will impact users and the business.
 </li>
 <li>
 Communication and collaboration: You communicate clearly in writing and in meetings, and you&rsquo;re comfortable learning in public&mdash;sharing early work, asking for help, and incorporating feedback. You enjoy partnering with engineers and cross-functional teammates (product, design, data).
 </li>
 <li>
 Impact and user focus: You care about building the right thing, not just building it quickly. You prioritize work based on user needs and outcomes, and you&rsquo;re mindful that features at Notion can reach millions of people.
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 Nice To Haves
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 You have experience with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, etc.
 </li>
 <li>
 You&rsquo;re a builder who finds joy in building software solutions for yourself or others
 </li>
 <li>
 You care about the interaction between technology and society, the ways in which they inform each other, and our responsibility as technologists to be conscious of that relationship.
 </li>
 <li>
 You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others&mdash;and understand why we're big fans of their work.
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you&rsquo;re excited about a role but your past experience doesn&rsquo;t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you&rsquo;re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.
 
 
 Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.
 
 
 Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role&rsquo;s scope and complexity, and the candidate&rsquo;s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco and New York, the estimated base salary range for this role is $126,000-$146,000.
 
 
</div>

Software Engineer, New Grad (AI)

<div>
 
 About The Team
 
 
 
 Post-Training is responsible for training the models to be deployed into ChatGPT, the API, and future products. The team partners closely with research and product teams across the company, and conducts research as a final step to prepare for real world deployment to millions of users, ensuring that our models are safe, efficient, and reliable.
 
 
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 We are looking for a seasoned engineer who can help us with a variety of engineering challenges. Some example projects in this role:
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Rapidly prototype and develop internal products or tools used by researchers, such as visualization for our evaluation of models.
 </li>
 <li>
 Refactor a large code base for cleaner module designs.
 </li>
 <li>
 Redesign experiment configuration and evaluation systems.
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 Ideal candidates
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Navigate large code bases independently and quickly
 </li>
 <li>
 Can debug through complex systems
 </li>
 <li>
 Can navigate high energy environments with fast changing priorities
 </li>
 <li>
 Are comfortable being scrappy and working independently at fast speeds
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
 
 
 
 In This Role, You Will
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Rapidly prototype and build tooling or visualization for researchers.
 </li>
 <li>
 Collaborate with research teams.
 </li>
 <li>
 Design, implement, test, and debug code across our stack.
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 You Might Thrive In This Role If You
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Strong background in writing maintainable, testable, clean code.
 </li>
 <li>
 Enjoyment of code quality, refactoring, and building robust internal codebases.
 </li>
 <li>
 Are a T-shaped engineer, with a broad range of experiences, but also an expert in one area. We are not terribly opinionated on a particular area, but examples could be expert level familiarity with the Python language, or expert experience building tools, or exceptional debugger.
 </li>
 <li>
 Fast learner; you will need to understand how post training works on a high level and pick up different aspects of research needs.
 </li>
 <li>
 Have experience building products that end users interface with, or building internal tools.
 </li>
 <li>
 Have experience shipping things quickly with competing priorities or deadlines.
 </li>
 <li>
 Proficiency with Python
 </li>
 <li>
 Are a team player, willing to do a variety of tasks that move the team forward.
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 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.
 
 
 We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
 
 
 For additional information, please see OpenAI&rsquo;s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
 
 
 Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
 
 
 To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
 
 
 We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
 
 
 OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
 
 
 At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
</div>

Software Engineer, Post-Training Research

<div>
 
 About The Team
 
 
 
 The Core Services team is responsible for building and managing foundational services. It acts as the bridge between core infrastructure (e.g. compute, storage, networking) and product engineering teams, and enables product teams to move fast, build reliably, and scale efficiently.
 
 
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 As a software engineer in the core services team, you will design and operate critical backend platforms such as caching systems, workflow orchestration, metadata stores, and file services. You&rsquo;ll focus on building highly reliable, scalable, and performant systems that serve as the backbone of our products.
 
 
 We&rsquo;re looking for people who are passionate about building infrastructure that empowers product teams, love working on distributed systems challenges, and enjoy creating well-designed APIs and abstractions that accelerate development.
 
 
 This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
 
 
 
 In This Role, You Will
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure services such as caching layers, workflow orchestration (Temporal), metadata stores, and file storage services.
 </li>
 <li>
 Collaborate with product teams to provide scalable, reliable primitives that abstract the complexities of distributed systems.
 </li>
 <li>
 Improve performance, resilience, and scalability of core services that power customer-facing applications.
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 You Might Thrive In This Role If You
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Have experience with distributed systems, caching infrastructure (e.g., Redis, Memcached), metadata storage (e.g., FoundationDB), or workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal, Cadence).
 </li>
 <li>
 Have experience running containerized services in cloud environments and integrating them into automated build/test/release (CI/CD) workflows.
 </li>
 <li>
 Understand trade-offs in consistency models, replication strategies, and performance optimization in multi-region systems.
 </li>
 <li>
 Excel at communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams, and are obsessed with delivering customer success.
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 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.
 
 
 We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
 
 
 For additional information, please see OpenAI&rsquo;s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
 
 
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