Backend Engineer, AI Agent Infrastructure & Observability

OpenAI

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

OpenAI invites a product-minded backend engineer to join the GTM Innovation team in the United States to build the systems behind a new generation of AI coworkers—persistent agents that understand their environment and take on meaningful work.

You will design and ship foundational infrastructure for durable workflow orchestration, memory and context systems, and the tools, permissions, and evaluation frameworks needed to operate reliably, with strong observability and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale durable agent runtimes and long-running agent loops.

Job description

OpenAI invites a product-minded backend engineer to join the GTM Innovation team in the United States to build the systems behind a new generation of AI coworkers—persistent agents that understand their environment and take on meaningful work.

You will design and ship foundational infrastructure for durable workflow orchestration, memory and context systems, and the tools, permissions, and evaluation frameworks needed to operate reliably, with strong observability and continuous improvement.

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