Backend Software Engineer, Jobs Platform

Location: San Francisco Employment Type: Full time Department: Applied AI Compensation: $293K – $490K • Offers Equity The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge,

plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked or more as required by applicable state or local law)

Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process. This role is at-will; OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results or market conditions.

About the Role

We’re looking for exceptional engineers to help build one of the most transformative applications of AI: using ChatGPT to expand economic opportunity at scale. This is a unique chance to work at the intersection of agents, search/matching, personalization, UX, and real-world economic impact building AI products that directly change people’s lives. Millions already turn to ChatGPT for career help but the job market is stuck in static résumés, keyword search, and opaque hiring. We’re building something different: a career agent that understands your skills, helps you prove them through certifications, and works nonstop to unlock opportunities — leading to a network where worker and employer agents match on real capabilities, not job boards. In this role you will:

Design and ship core systems for search,

matching, and recommendation including candidate-job ranking, retrieval, and personalization pipelines

Partner closely with research and applied ML teams to productionize models and integrate them into high-scale backend systems
Run experiments and iterate on ranking models and recommendation strategies to improve long-term success metrics
Build high-trust scalable systems that support millions of job seekers and employers
Work closely with product,

design, research, and ops to create human-centered experiences powered by AI

You may be a good fit if you have:

8+ years of software engineering experience building highly available user-facing products
Have extensive prior experience building and maintaining production machine learning systems.
Have prior experience working with vector databases,

search indices or other data stores for search and retrieval use cases

Familiarity with ML concepts and production ML systems (e.g., embeddings,

ranking models, feature pipelines), even if not a research specialist

Experience collaborating with ML or research teams to deploy models into production systems
Strong backend/system design skills especially for high-scale data and retrieval systems
Own problems end-to-end,

and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done

Enthusiasm for working in a fast-moving ambiguous environment where new ideas ship quickly and user impact matters most

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. To achieve our mission we must encompass value many different perspectives voices experiences that form full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer; we do not discriminate on basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other legally protected characteristic. Background checks are administered per applicable law; qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered consistent with those laws including San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance California Fair Chance Act US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: criminal history may have direct adverse negative relationship with certain duties potentially resulting in withdrawal of conditional offer; such duties include protecting computer hardware from theft loss damage returning all computer hardware upon termination end assignment maintaining confidentiality proprietary confidential non-public information; duties require access secure protected IT systems related data security obligations.