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Full-Stack Engineer, Public Sector

OpenAI
OpenAI Salary
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 2/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/13/2025

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 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 Role

We'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 them
  • Work with the research team to get relevant feedback and iterate on their latest models
  • 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 :

  • Hold an active US security clearance
  • 5 years of relevant engineering 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 requirements
  • About OpenAI

    OpenAI 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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

    OpenAI Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

    For US Based Candidates : Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

    We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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    At 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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