Backend Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen

About this role

Join OpenAI's Image Generation team as a Backend Engineer to build scalable infrastructure powering image creation and editing in ChatGPT. You'll design and operate distributed systems that serve billions of requests while partnering with researchers, product teams, and mobile engineers to bring cutting-edge multimodal AI capabilities to millions of users.

What you'll do

• Design and operate backend systems for image generation and editing in ChatGPT
• Develop scalable APIs, services, and infrastructure for multimodal AI workflows
• Optimize reliability, latency, throughput, and cost across distributed systems
• Collaborate with researchers to productionize new capabilities and deploy safely
• Partner with mobile and web engineers to build seamless end-to-end experiences
• Drive technical architecture decisions for storage, serving, orchestration, and platforms

What they're looking for

• Large-scale backend and distributed systems design
• Cloud-native architectures and modern backend technologies
• API design and service-oriented architecture
• Production system reliability and performance optimization
• Data analysis and experimentation
• Cross-functional collaboration and technical leadership
• Multimodal AI systems understanding
• Ownership mindset in ambiguous, fast-moving environments