OpenAI

Software Engineer, Implicit Signals

OpenAI • $135K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering or distributed systems at scale
  • Strong fundamentals in API design and performance management
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot complex production problems
  • Demonstrated experience with the full software lifecycle from design to deployment
  • Strong product judgment and engagement with technical users
  • Ability to navigate ambiguous problems with wide-reaching impact
  • Familiarity with AI agents and fast-paced multi-tasking environments

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement software services and APIs for classifiers
  • Develop and maintain online/offline classification pipelines for scalability
  • Enhance model-serving performance metrics like throughput and latency
  • Create user-friendly tools for data scientists to conduct experiments
  • Ensure production reliability and manage incident responses
  • Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate new classification capabilities
  • Engage closely with researchers to refine and enhance workflows

Benefits

  • Flexible work hours promoting work-life balance
  • Opportunities for professional development and upskilling
  • Supportive team environment emphasizing collaboration
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies in ML and AI
  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs
Full Job Description
About the Team

Our team builds classification and evaluation systems that give post-training and research teams fast, reliable feedback on model behavior. We combine machine learning and production engineering to make these capabilities accurate, efficient, and useful at scale, helping researchers assess changes and improve models and products.

We work closely with researchers and data scientists and have broad ownership of the software that makes these capabilities available. Our work spans real-time systems, data engineering, model serving, and tools for experimentation, with careful attention to performance, reliability, and privacy.

About the Role

We're looking for a software engineer to build and evolve our classification and evaluation platform. You'll develop services, online and offline pipelines, and tools that help researchers and data scientists turn an idea into a working measurement and iterate on it quickly.

This role combines software and data engineering with hands-on production ownership. You'll shape the architecture, deliver new capabilities, improve inference efficiency, and keep the system dependable as workloads and requirements evolve. Strong candidates will bring deep software engineering expertise and an interest in building a technical product in close partnership with its users.

In this role, you will:
  • Design and build software services and APIs for configuring, running, and managing classifiers and evaluations.
  • Build and operate online and offline classification pipelines that support reliable, efficient execution at scale.
  • Improve model-serving performance, including throughput, latency, concurrency, and compute utilization.
  • Build tools that make experimentation, debugging, and iteration straightforward for researchers and data scientists.
  • Own production reliability, observability, and incident response, and reduce the operational burden of running the platform.
  • Partner with machine learning engineers to bring new classification capabilities into production.
  • Work closely with post-training researchers and data scientists to understand their workflows, identify high-impact improvements, and shape the product.

You might thrive in this role if you have:
  • Experience designing, building, and operating software services or distributed systems at scale.
  • Strong fundamentals in API design, concurrency, caching, performance, and failure recovery.
  • Ability to investigate complex production problems and make sound architectural tradeoffs.
  • A track record of owning software from initial design through deployment and ongoing operation.
  • Strong product judgment and an interest in working directly with technical users.
  • Comfort with ambiguous problems and broad ownership across multiple parts of a system.
  • Fluency in using AI agents to move quickly across multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
  • Interest in machine learning, data science, and statistics; experience with model serving, ML platforms, or inference optimization is a plus.


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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100 employees
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Founded
2015

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