Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gov

Washington, United StatesRemote

Responsibilities

- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations folks to create cutting-edge products - Optimize applications for speed and scale You might thrive in this role if you: - US Citizen - 9+ years of relevant engineering

benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.
In this role, you’ll join a nimble team driving the deployment of OpenAI’s technology into new environments and infrastructure that power critical missions in the public sector.
you will: - Own the development of new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features end-to-end, both on-premises and in the cloud, for our public sector customers.
experience at tech and product-driven companies - Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies - Proficiency with some backend language (we use Python) - Some
experience with underlying infrastructure primitives like Kubernetes and Terraform - Interest in AI/ML (direct
experience not required) - Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines - An interest in enabling public sector use cases with unique
About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence

About the Team Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI’s ideas safely to the world! The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses.
We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the
About the Role We’re seeking Software Engineers who can solve complex, high-impact problems across our stack.
You’ll work cross-functionally with product, security, and compliance teams to build the functionality needed to deliver a scalable, reliable platform.
You’ll also partner directly with customers to design and build new products and features that create real-world impact.
This role is based in Washington D.C., San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA.
Occasional travel to customer sites is required for this role. In this role,
- Partner and directly embed with teams across the business, including engineering, security, and compliance, to enable our products to work within the unique constraints of new environments.
- Talk to users to understand their problems and design solutions to address them - Work with the research team to get relevant feedback and iterate on their latest models, developing solutions specific for public sector customers at both the model & data layers.
requirements Title note: At OpenAI, research and engineering hires share the internal title Member of Technical Staff.