7+ years of experience in building high-scale consumer or enterprise systems, preferably in ads-related areas.
Experience architecting and delivering complex distributed systems with reliability and performance requirements.
Ability to navigate ambiguous product spaces and contribute to technical roadmaps.
Strong product intuition with experience cooperating with Product, Design, and Research teams.
Comfort in 0?1 environments where systems must be defined from scratch.
Excellent communication skills with a holistic decision-making approach.
Motivation to build privacy-preserving and user-first monetization systems.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and scale core infrastructure for monetization and ads products.
Develop tools and APIs for advertisers to create, manage, and measure advertisements.
Create integrations with external partners for enterprise-grade monetization products.
Architect distributed systems with strong reliability and performance guarantees.
Translate product requirements into high-quality technical solutions in collaboration with teams.
Drive product development through rapid prototyping and experimentation.
Contribute to the technical strategy and roadmap for monetization and ads platforms.
Maintain engineering rigor through testing, documentation, and best practices.
Benefits
Relocation assistance offered for new employees.
Focused on user-first and privacy-preserving systems.
Work within a multidisciplinary team in a fast-moving environment.
Opportunity to influence long-term product direction and strategy.
Full Job Description
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help build the core monetization and ads systems at OpenAI. This is a foundational role responsible for designing and implementing the infrastructure, APIs, and user-facing experiences that will power OpenAI's next-generation monetization products-including ads.
You'll work across the full technical stack to architect, build, and ship 01 systems that are robust, safe, and scalable. You will collaborate deeply with Product, Design, and Research to define the future of monetized AI experiences and ensure these systems meet OpenAI's highest standards for safety, privacy, and policy alignment.
This role is exclusively based across our San Francisco and Seattle sites. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Design, build, and scale the core infrastructure behind OpenAI's monetization and ads products
Develop advertiser-facing APIs and tools that enable the creation, management, and measurement of ads
Build integrations with external partners and help create enterprise-grade monetization products
Architect distributed systems and services that operate at massive scale with strong reliability, usability, privacy, and performance guarantees
Work closely with Product, Research, and Design to translate product requirements into high-quality technical solutions
Drive 01 product development through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment
Contribute to technical strategy, propose new directions, and help shape the roadmap for monetization and ads platforms
Maintain high engineering rigor through strong testing, documentation, and operational best practices
Uphold the highest levels of safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance across all monetization systems
Help continuously refine engineering processes, culture, and best practices within a fast-moving, multidisciplinary team
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have 7+ years of experience building high-scale consumer, enterprise, or ads-related systems
Have a track record of architecting and delivering complex distributed systems with high reliability and performance requirements
Are comfortable navigating ambiguous product spaces and contributing to technical roadmaps and long-term direction
Bring strong product intuition and enjoy collaborating deeply with Product, Design, and Research
Thrive in 01 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences must be defined from scratch
Communicate clearly, think holistically, and make decisions rooted in both user needs and long-term sustainability
Are motivated by building privacy-preserving, safe, and user-first monetization systems
Bonus: Have experience in ads systems, marketplaces, or other monetization-heavy domains
Location
This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.
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.
