OpenAI
Software Engineer, Backend (Cooperative AI)
About this role
Join OpenAI's Cooperative AI team as a Backend Software Engineer to design and scale infrastructure powering AI-driven knowledge and automation systems. You'll build robust backend services that integrate OpenAI models into high-impact workflows across the organization, working at the intersection of distributed systems and cutting-edge AI technology.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain backend services and APIs for intelligent automation and knowledge systems
- Transform and structure data across internal platforms for AI workflows and downstream systems
- Collaborate with product, research, and engineering teams to integrate OpenAI models into workflows
- Own full development lifecycle of new backend systems and internal platform capabilities
- Build scalable and maintainable systems while iterating rapidly on new ideas
What they're looking for
- Backend engineering (4+ years at product-driven companies)
- Python and FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- Distributed systems design and scaling
- API design
- Data processing pipelines
- Structured knowledge representation
- Pragmatic, iterative development mindset
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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.
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