About the Team
Our team brings OpenAI’s most capable technology to the world through our developer platform: the OpenAI API. As the leading AI development platform, our API is used by millions of developers and the majority of enterprises around the world, and powers the majority of AI applications that you may use on a daily basis. Most recently, we’ve released o1, gpt-4o, the realtime API, structured outputs, distillation, prompt caching, and many other products and features.
About the Role
We are looking for a software engineer to own the official SDKs that power the OpenAI API. Currently offered in Python, Node.js, Golang, and others – our SDKs are some of the most popular in the world, and we believe may be the most popular AI provider SDKs. You will help shape the development experience for all new API features, as well as all future versions of our APIs. We are looking for engineers who will sweat the details about API design, who love building for AI developers, and who believe in the potential for AI to transform the world for the better. Prior experience building SDKs is a nice to have, but not necessary.
In this role, you will:
Define and implement the SDK experience for all new API features, as well as all future versions of our API.
Build and maintain our systems to make SDK maintenance and generation streamlined and automated.
Own our SDK strategy and roadmap, including which languages to support and what features to support.
Collaborate closely with the rest of the API team, our Developer Experience team, and our GTM team to make our SDKs the best in the world.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Can thrive and operate independently in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous requirements and goals
Love building for other developers, and thrive on feedback from opinionated users
Are an engineer at heart, but are willing to lean into product decisions
Have previous experience maintaining SDKs or building SDK generation software
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 to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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What We Do
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.
To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership.
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
