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Software Engineer, Cooperative AI

OpenAI · San Francisco · On-site

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About OpenAI

Backed by Greylock, Insight and Khosla.

About the role

Own the development of new products, platform capabilities, and integrations from initial concept through launch and ongoing improvement. Apply OpenAI’s latest models to knowledge systems, automation workflows, and AI agents. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships, at technology or product-driven companies
  • Strong programming and software design fundamentals, with depth in areas such as backend, full-stack, product, or platform engineering
  • Experience taking software from idea to production and making thoughtful tradeoffs across quality, speed, reliability, and security
  • A customer-focused approach and the ability to turn loosely defined problems into practical solutions
  • Comfort collaborating across disciplines, navigating ambiguity, and iterating quickly while building toward a long-term vision
  • Curiosity about AI/ML and excitement about applying new models to real-world problems, direct AI/ML experience is not required
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About the Team

The Cooperative AI team is scaling OpenAI with OpenAI. We are building an AI powered knowledge system that evolves and learns as our products, systems and customers evolve. We leverage our state of the art models, technologies, and products (some external, some still in the lab) to assist or completely automate robust operations supporting both internal and external customers. We support OpenAI customers and internal partners globally, powering systems from customer support to integrity to product insights. We are a self-contained multi-disciplinary team, who enjoy a lightning fast feedback loop with customers at scale, some of whom sit just a few pods away. We iterate fast, and engineer for reliable long-term impact. We're constantly looking for the similarities and patterns in different types of work, and focus on building simple primitives, to apply world class knowledge to many domains.

The work of this team exemplifies use of OpenAI technologies. We build systems so everyone can see the leverage that is possible with well designed AI-based implementations. We do this by working through internal use cases focused on Customers (specifically knowledge systems,...

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