Full-Stack Engineer, Public Sector

About the TeamJoin 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 benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.About the RoleWe’re seeking a Full-Stack Engineer who can work across the entire software stack. You’ll join a nimble team where you’ll help drive deployment of OpenAI’s technology into new environments and infrastructure to enable the critical missions in the public sector. This role engages cross-functionally with internal product, security, and compliance teams to build required functionality and ensure we’re delivering a scalable, reliable platform. You’ll interface directly with customers to build the features they need most. This role is based in Washington D.C. and San Francisco, CA. Occasional travel to customer sites is required for this role.In this role, 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.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 themWork with the research team to get relevant feedback and iterate on their latest modelsCollaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations folks to create cutting-edge productsOptimize applications for speed and scaleYou might thrive in this role if you:Hold an active US security clearance5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companiesProficiency with JavaScript, React, and other web technologiesProficiency with some backend language (we use Python)Some experience with underlying infrastructure primitives like Kubernetes and TerraformInterest 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 deadlinesAn interest in enabling public sector use cases with unique requirementsAbout OpenAIOpenAI 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.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy PolicyAt 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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