Backend Software Engineer - Codex for Finance

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI’s backend engineering team for Financial Services is seeking engineers to design and build backend systems powering AI-native workflows. You will work with data ingestion, indexing, and retrieval, and integrate with external financial data providers.

You will collaborate with product teams and customers to implement secure authentication/entitlements and ensure models access the right tools and data with provenance and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems that power AI-native financial workflows across ChatGPT Work and Codex.
• Build infrastructure to ingest, index, retrieve, and serve financial data, company filings, market information, and firm-specific knowledge at scale.
• Develop integrations with financial data providers, enterprise knowledge systems, and customer environments, including the authentication, authorization, and entitlements required to use them securely.
• Build the systems that let models and agents use the right tools and data, preserve source provenance, and produce accurate results.

Job description

About the Team

OpenAI for Financial Services is part of OpenAI's Verticals organization, which focuses on accelerating the economy and knowledge work. We build AI products for financial institutions and the professionals who power them, from investment bankers and research analysts to investors and other financial services teams. We combine OpenAI's models, financial data, and enterprise knowledge to help professionals research companies, analyze markets, and produce high-quality work in the tools they use every day. We're a small, entrepreneurial team working closely with customers and partners across research, product, design, engineering, and go-to-market to bring new capabilities from idea to production.

About the Role

We're looking for backend engineers to build the systems that make advanced AI useful, reliable, and trustworthy in financial services. You'll build the data systems, agentic workflows, and enterprise integrations behind our products. You'll also help bring them into production at some of the world's largest financial institutions. This is a product-minded engineering role with significant ownership and zero-to-one building. You'll shape new products from the ground up, work directly with customers to understand their workflows, and collaborate across OpenAI to turn new model capabilities into products that professionals can trust with high-stakes work. In this role, you will: Design and build backend systems that power AI-native financial workflows across ChatGPT Work and Codex. Build infrastructure to ingest, index, retrieve, and serve financial data, company filings, market information, and firm-specific knowledge at scale. Develop integrations with financial data providers, enterprise knowledge systems, and customer environments, including the authentication, authorization, and entitlements required to use them securely. Build the systems that let models and agents use the right tools and data, preserve source provenance, and produce accurate,