# Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise Technology Vertical

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $441K – $500K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We are looking for an exceptionally experienced, hands-on full-stack engineer to define and build the next generation of AI-powered enterprise workflows.

You will take on the hardest and most ambiguous problems in the Technology vertical: translating real customer needs into product direction, designing the systems behind the experience, and personally writing and shipping production-quality code across the stack.

You will own the technical direction and end-to-end delivery of products spanning ChatGPT Work surfaces, backend services, plugins, connectors, enterprise data, permissions, and evaluations.

Responsibilities:

- Set the technical direction for role-specific enterprise AI experiences, and personally design, build, and ship their most critical components across ChatGPT Work surfaces, services, plugins, and connectors.

- Turn ambiguous customer and design-partner needs into a clear, generalizable product and technical strategy, with explicit milestones, architectural decisions, and measurable quality and adoption goals.

- Lead complex initiatives across Design, Research, GTM, Security, and platform teams; align senior stakeholders; make consequential tradeoffs; and drive decisions through to implementation.

- Architect production-grade systems and establish the evaluation, instrumentation, security, reliability, staged-rollout, and rollback standards required to operate probabilistic AI experiences safely.

- Own the complete product and engineering lifecycle: problem definition, technical design, hands-on prototyping, production implementation, launch, customer feedback, and sustained iteration.

- Define durable technical contracts and fallback strategies across connectors, identity, permissions, enterprise data, model routing, and shared platform dependencies; raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews, mentorship, and reusable patterns.

You might thrive in this role if:

- You are a deeply experienced, hands-on product engineer,typically with 10+ years building production software,who combines exceptional technical depth with strong product judgment.

- You can independently architect and implement sophisticated systems across frontend, backend, APIs, data, distributed services, and complex enterprise integrations.

- You can earn trust with customers, influence senior stakeholders, and bring cross-functional teams to a clear decision without relying on formal authority.

- You know how to turn uncertainty into a disciplined execution plan, using experiments, evaluations, instrumentation, and customer evidence to decide what to build.

- You treat enterprise identity, permissions, privacy, security, performance, reliability, and operational readiness as foundational product requirements.

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

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- full-stack engineering
- AI-powered enterprise workflows
- ChatGPT Work surfaces
- backend services
- plugins
- connectors
- enterprise data
- permissions
- evaluations

### Nice to have
- React
- TypeScript
- Python
- Go
- Node.js
- applied AI
- agentic
- conversational products

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