Description
Backend Software Engineer, ChatGPT Engineering
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Applied AI
Compensation
- $185K – $385K
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
About the Team
Core backend engineering is central to delivering reliable, scalable, and performant AI-driven products. Our Backend teams span Search Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Personalization, Ecosystems, Growth, and more—building services, data systems, and APIs that power ChatGPT’s global footprint.
About the Role
We’re hiring Backend Software Engineers to design and implement the services and infrastructure powering ChatGPT.
What You’ll Do
- Architect, build, and improve scalable backend systems and APIs.
- Drive performance, reliability, and security across distributed services.
- Work closely with product, data science, and frontend teams.
- Implement data storage, retrieval, compute, and integration solutions.
- Participate in long-term architectural planning and technical design reviews.
You Might Thrive Here If You:
- Have strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, and backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, C++).
- Enjoy building resilient services that handle large scale and complexity.
- Are passionate about system design, reliability, and operational excellence.
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.