Software Engineer - Jobs Platform & Certifications

About the Role

We’re looking for exceptional engineers to help build one of the most transformative applications of AI: using ChatGPT to expand economic opportunity at scale. This is a unique chance to work at the intersection of agents, search/matching, personalization, UX, and real-world economic impact and building AI products that directly change people’s lives.

Millions already turn to ChatGPT for career help, but the job market is stuck in static résumés, keyword search, and opaque hiring. We’re building something different: a career agent that understands your skills, helps you prove them through certifications, and works nonstop to unlock opportunities — leading to a network where worker and employer agents match on real capabilities, not job boards.

In this role, you will:

• Own major product surfaces end-to-end to build the next-generation AI-powered jobs platform

• Design and ship core systems for matching, candidate verification, skills representation, and workflow automation

• Work with research to turn new model and agent capabilities into production features that help users prove skills, certify expertise, and find great opportunities

• Build high-trust, scalable systems that support millions of job seekers and employers

• Run experiments, talk to users, and iterate quickly to identify what drives successful outcomes, not clicks or resumes

• Work closely with product, design, research, and ops to create human-centered experiences powered by AI

• Optimize for speed, reliability, and security, ensuring a trusted platform for economic mobility

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building highly-available user-facing products

• Experience working across the stack (frontend + backend) and comfort owning features end-to-end

• Passion for marketplaces, matching systems, or search/personalization, even if you haven't built one before

• Interest in AI-driven UX, agents, and workflow automation (direct ML experience not required)

• Enthusiasm for working in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where new ideas ship quickly and user impact matters most

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 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.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. 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.

To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.

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

OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy

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.