OpenAI
Software Engineer, Ad Formats
About this role
OpenAI seeks an experienced Software Engineer to build the rendering and presentation layer for its new ads ecosystem. You'll design infrastructure for diverse ad formats across ChatGPT and other surfaces while ensuring privacy, safety, and seamless user experiences at scale.
What you'll do
- Design and scale creative rendering and presentation systems for ads across multiple formats and platforms
- Develop infrastructure and tooling for text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive ad experiences
- Define how ads are structured, validated, rendered, and delivered across ChatGPT products
- Build systems ensuring reliable rendering, performance optimization, and quality standards across platforms
- Partner with Product, Design, and Research to prototype and ship native ad experiences
- Drive 0→1 product development through rapid prototyping and iterative deployment
What they're looking for
- Full-stack software engineering with 7+ years building consumer products
- Systems architecture and distributed systems design
- Frontend and backend infrastructure development
- Performance optimization and reliability engineering
- Cross-functional collaboration with product and design teams
- Privacy and safety-first engineering practices
- Ads formats or creative rendering systems (preferred)
Benefits
- Compensation: $230K - $385K USD
- San Francisco headquarters location
- Relocation assistance provided
- Opportunity to shape foundational monetization platform
- Work on cutting-edge AI product experiences
- Collaborate with world-class product and research teams
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OpenAI
OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.
View all jobs at OpenAILikely interview questions
- Walk us through a complex system you've architected for rendering or delivering content across multiple platforms. How did you handle consistency and performance?
- Tell us about a time you built infrastructure for a 0→1 product. What were the biggest technical decisions you had to make early, and what would you do differently?