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Software Engineer, Plugin Ecosystem

San Francisco (Remote)$185k–$490kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

OpenAI seeks a product-minded software engineer to build the plugin ecosystem platform powering ChatGPT and Codex extensions. You'll design APIs, SDKs, and infrastructure that enable developers to create and share plugins while improving how models invoke and interact with them.

What you'll do

  • Design and ship APIs, SDKs, and backend services for plugin development and integration
  • Build user-facing experiences for plugin discovery, installation, and usage
  • Improve plugin creation, testing, publishing, and sharing workflows
  • Collaborate with research to diagnose model-tool interactions and measure plugin quality improvements
  • Enhance plugin reliability, error handling, and recovery across products
  • Implement permissions, approvals, and admin controls for secure organizational adoption

What they're looking for

  • Backend API and SDK design
  • Full-stack development (web and backend systems)
  • Identity and permissions systems
  • Integration-heavy platform architecture
  • Applied AI systems and model behavior diagnosis
  • Product thinking and user empathy
  • Cross-team collaboration
  • Developer platform experience

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model (3 days in-office per week in San Francisco)
  • Relocation assistance available
  • Work on cutting-edge AI extension infrastructure
  • Collaborate with research and product teams
  • Impact millions of users through plugin ecosystem
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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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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about an API or SDK you've designed—what tradeoffs did you make and why?
  • Describe a time you worked on a developer platform or open-source project. What made it successful?
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