OpenAI

Software Engineer, Backend - Sora

OpenAI$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in product engineering with proven delivery of user-focused products.
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to learning new technologies.
  • Experience building or supporting video infrastructure is a bonus.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with diverse teams to design and enhance video product features.
  • Translate user research into scalable product solutions.
  • Integrate advanced video capabilities with researchers.
  • Define the technical roadmap and product strategy for video applications.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model (3 days in the office per week).
  • Relocation assistance for new hires.
Full Job Description
About the Team

The Sora team is pioneering multimodal capabilities for OpenAI's foundation models. We're a hybrid research and product team focused on integrating multimodal functionalities into our AI products, ensuring they are reliable, user-friendly, and aligned with our mission of broad societal benefit.

About the Role

We're looking for experienced, problem-solving engineers to build new products and scale our systems. Our success depends on our ability to quickly iterate on products while also ensuring that they are performant and reliable.

You'll work in a deeply iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure it's delivered with safety and reliability in mind.

As we explore new frontiers in video-enabled AI and other modalities, you will help define our product strategy and build the foundations for these initiatives. We value engineers who take initiative, demonstrate strong product instincts, and maintain a user-centric focus in their work.

In this role, you will:
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and iterate on innovative video product features.
  • Translate user needs and research insights into scalable product solutions.
  • Work with researchers to integrate advanced video capabilities into our core offerings.
  • Shape the technical roadmap and product strategy for our video initiatives.

You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have 6+ years of industry experience in product engineering, with a proven record of shipping impactful, user-focused products.
  • Excel in environments with ambiguity and rapid change, turning complex requirements into practical, elegant solutions.
  • Possess a proactive mindset with the ability to quickly learn new technologies and share your insights with your team.
  • Bonus: Have experience building or supporting video infrastructure, which will be valuable as our product scales.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

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.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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