OpenAI
Software Engineer, Cooperative AI
$266K–$445K
San Francisco +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Seattle - Experience
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships.
About the job
Build and scale AI-powered knowledge, automation, and agent systems, taking products and platform capabilities from concept through launch and improvement.
What you'll do
- Develop products, platform capabilities, and integrations from concept through launch and ongoing improvement.
- Apply OpenAI models to knowledge systems, automation workflows, and AI agents; build reliable, scalable software.
- Collaborate with engineering, research, product, operations, and internal customers to identify needs and improve reusable solutions.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships, at technology or product-driven companies.
- Strong programming and software design fundamentals, with depth in backend, full-stack, product, or platform engineering.
- Experience taking software from idea to production and making tradeoffs across quality, speed, reliability, and security.
- Customer-focused approach and ability to turn loosely defined problems into practical solutions.
Nice to have
- Curiosity about AI/ML and enthusiasm for applying new models; direct AI/ML experience is not required.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
AI focus
Apply OpenAI models to knowledge systems, automation workflows, and AI agents; evaluate real-world model performance and improve applications.
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