- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Oct 3, 2026
- Pay: $230k–$385k a year
- Experience: 9+ yrs
- Python
- Distributed services
- Go
- +6
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What OpenAI asks for
Across its 56 roles open in software and data. Each number counts the postings that list the item.
- Experience
- 4+ to 12+ yrs
- Most often 5+ (9 of 56)
- Remote-eligible
- 0 of 56
- Pay, as stated
- $180k–$555k
- Stated in 56 of 56
- Required most often
- Python13
- Reliability7
- Architecture6
- Backend5
- C++5
- Distributed systems5
- Performance5
- APIs4
- Concurrency4
- Preferred most often
- Integrations4
- Rust4
- E-commerce3
- Security3
- Systems programming3
- AI agents2
- Applied AI2
- Checkout2
Open roles (56)
Newest first- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Oct 3, 2026
- Pay: $230k–$385k a year
- Experience: 9+ yrs
- Backend engineering
- Backend programming language
- Service design
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Pay: $266k–$455k a year
- Experience: 5+ yrs
- Architecture
- Design
- Define
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Pay: $230k–$385k a year
- React
- TypeScript
- Desktop
- +4
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Pay: $318k–$485k a year
- GitOps
- Regression testing
- Python
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Pay: $401k–$445k a year
- Full-stack engineering
- Technical leadership
- Frontend
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Pay: $295k–$445k a year
- Data Engineering
- Data architecture
- Distributed systems
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Pay: $347k–$445k a year
- SQL
- Data integration
- AI fluency
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Pay: $459k–$536k a year
- Experience: 12+ yrs
- SQL
- Python
- MS
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Pay: $347k–$445k a year
- API design
- Production problems
- AI agents
- +7
- Location: New York City
- Posted: Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Pay: $251k–$278k a year
- Experience: 8+ yrs
- Python
- Prototyping
- JavaScript
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Pay: $347k–$445k a year
- Debugging
- Bazel
- Buildkite
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Pay: $302k–$335k a year
- Experience: 8+ yrs
- Product strategy
- Customer validation
- Collaboration
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Pay: $401k–$536k a year
- User-facing applications
- Expert workflows
- Backend services
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Pay: $266k–$445k a year
- Programming
- Multi-language
- Systems debugging
- +7
- Location: Seattle
- Posted: Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Pay: $437k–$485k a year
- LLM
- Software engineering
- Python
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Pay: $266k–$445k a year
- Data modeling
- State transitions
- Idempotency
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Pay: $266k–$445k a year
- iOS
- Engineering fundamentals
- Data analysis
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Pay: $266k–$445k a year
- Frontend performance
- Latency
- Interaction design
- +7
- Location: New York City
- Posted: Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Pay: $302k–$385k a year
- Experience: 10+ yrs
- Production code
- Documentation
- Frontend development
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Pay: $266k–$385k a year
- Experience: 4+ yrs
- Software engineer
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Pay: $381k–$555k a year
- PyTorch
- Data structures
- LLM training
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Pay: $230k–$385k a year
- C++
- Scheduling
- Concurrent programming
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Pay: $230k–$385k a year
- Design
- Solutions
- Ownership
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Pay: $230k–$385k a year
- C++
- Systems development
- Concurrent programming
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Pay: $185k–$490k a year
- API
- User experience
- Plugins
- +7
- Location: New York City
- Posted: Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Pay: $185k–$300k a year
- Experience: 5+ yrs
- Production-grade code
- LLMs
- Production AI systems
- +6
- Location: Seattle
- Posted: Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Pay: $401k–$445k a year
- Shape
- Build systems
- Software engineering foundation
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Pay: $255k–$490k a year
- API design
- Concurrency
- Reliability
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Pay: $310k–$460k a year
- Experience: 7+ yrs
- C
- Shell
- Linux
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Pay: $293k–$325k a year
- Experience: 5+ yrs
- Python
- Forecasting
- Experimentation
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Pay: $347k–$385k a year
- Experience: 5+ yrs
- Backend
- Production systems
- Backend services
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Pay: $342k–$555k a year
- Performance modeling
- Rack architecture
- Workload requirements
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Pay: $459k–$536k a year
- Technical judgment
- SQL
- Python
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Pay: $180k a year
- JavaScript
- React
- Backend languages
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Pay: $266k–$500k a year
- Software engineering
- Performance optimization
- Reliability
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Pay: $293k–$385k a year
- ML infrastructure
- ML teams
- Integrity
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 12, 2026
- Pay: $347k–$385k a year
- Experience: 5+ yrs
- Production software
- Mobile development
- Frontend development
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 12, 2026
- Pay: $380k–$500k a year
- Experience: 4+ yrs
- Security clearance
- RLHF
- Deep learning
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 12, 2026
- Pay: $401k–$445k a year
- Experience: 12+ yrs
- Hands-on
- AI
- Technical judgment
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Pay: $380k–$500k a year
- Programming
- Debugging
- Export control
- +7
- Location: Seattle
- Posted: Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Pay: $185k–$300k a year
- Experience: 5+ yrs
- Production-grade code
- LLM systems
- Full-stack systems
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Pay: $185k–$300k a year
- Experience: 5+ yrs
- Production code
- LLM systems
- Full-stack development
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Pay: $185k–$305k a year
- Backend technologies
- Cloud-native architectures
- Multimodal AI
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Pay: $185k–$385k a year
- Android
- Kotlin
- Mobile development
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Pay: $198k–$335k a year
- Engineering fundamentals
- Code
- Maintainable code
- +7
- Location: New York City
- Posted: Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Pay: $266k–$445k a year
- Experience: 5+ yrs
- Distributed systems
- Concurrency
- Asynchronous execution
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Pay: $295k–$445k a year
- Frontend
- Architecture
- Full-stack
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Pay: $401k–$445k a year
- Technical strategy
- Post-Training
- Platforms
- +7
- Location: Seattle
- Posted: Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Pay: $185k–$405k a year
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- Android SDK
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Pay: $266k–$468k a year
- Software engineering
- Work across stack
- Investigate failures
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Pay: $380k–$460k a year
- Real-time control algorithms
- Motion control
- Feedback loops
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Pay: $401k–$445k a year
- Architecture
- Reliability
- Security
- +7
- Location: Washington, DC
- Posted: Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Pay: $211k–$302k a year
- Experience: 7+ yrs
- Security clearance
- Network architecture
- Python
- +6
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 5, 2026
- Pay: $266k–$445k a year
- Services
- Boot mechanisms
- APIs
- +7
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Pay: $347k–$445k a year
- Experience: 5+ yrs
- C
- C++
- Rust
- +2
Source: OpenAI careers (Ashby). Each role opens our summary, with a link to the original posting.