In this role, you will
Build and scale durable agent runtimes, long-running agent loops, and workflow orchestration using the Codex harness and emerging agent infrastructure.
Design context and memory systems that ground agents in the information they need while preserving clear access boundaries.
Develop rigorous evaluation frameworks, production feedback loops, and observability to measure agent quality and improve it over time.
Partner directly with Sales, Technical Success, and Revenue Operations to identify high-value problems and own solutions from prototype through production.
Build reliable backend services, data pipelines, and integrations that enable agents to take meaningful action across real-world workflows.
Collaborate with OpenAI’s Product and Research teams to advance agent capabilities and turn production learnings into platform improvements.
You’ll thrive in this role if you
Have 6+ years of experience as a software engineer working on applied AI or user-facing systems
Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch is a plus
Domain experience or demonstrated interest in sales technology or enterprise knowledge work automation
Continually reinvent your software development process as coding models and developer tools improve
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
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.
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