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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gov

Backend Developer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 Washington

OpenAI's Applied Engineering team is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive the deployment of OpenAI's technology into public-sector environments and infrastructure, based in Washington D.C., San Francisco, or Seattle.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end development of new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features, both on-premises and in the cloud, for public-sector customers
  • Embed directly with engineering, security, and compliance teams to adapt products to the constraints of new environments
  • Talk to users to understand their problems and design solutions
  • Work with the research team to give feedback and iterate on the latest models, tailoring solutions for public-sector customers
  • Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations staff
  • Optimize applications for speed and scale

Requirements

  • US citizenship required
  • 9+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
  • Proficiency in JavaScript, React, and other web technologies
  • Proficiency in a backend language (Python used internally)
  • Some experience with infrastructure primitives such as Kubernetes and Terraform
  • Willingness to travel occasionally to customer sites

Nice to have

  • Interest in AI/ML (no direct experience required)
  • Interest in enabling public-sector use cases with unique requirements

Soft skills

Ability to move fast in loosely defined environments with competing priorities or deadlines

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company whose mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company continually pushes the boundaries of AI capabilities and works to safely deploy them to the world through its products, while placing safety and human needs at the core of its work and striving to reflect the full spectrum of human perspectives and experience.

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