Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation

OpenAI; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 385,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity offers

Competitive salary

Job summary

A leading AI research firm in Los Angeles seeks an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join the GTM Innovation team. The role involves building high-impact applications, working closely with go-to-market teams, and utilizing OpenAI’s API platform to shape customer experiences. Candidates should have over 4 years of experience, be fluent in Python or JavaScript, and enjoy collaborating with users to create innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment. Competitive compensation package is offered.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a software/ML/product engineer working on user-facing systems.
• Experience as a founder or early engineer at a startup is a plus.
• Comfortable building full-stack applications.

Responsibilities

• Build high-impact applications and tools that accelerate go-to-market efforts.
• Work across the full product lifecycle: prototype, iterate, ship, and maintain.
• Identify user needs by embedding with Sales and Technical Success teams.

Skills

Fluent in Python

Proficient in JavaScript

Experience with LLM-powered workflows

Ability to work collaboratively

Strong sense of ownership

Job description

Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation

GTM Innovation - San Francisco

About the Team

The GTM (Go-To-Market) Innovation team is an internal powerhouse revolutionizing how we engage customers through groundbreaking applications of our technology. As an incubator, we amplify the impact of Sales, Technical Success, Enablement, and Revenue Operations by deploying our technology at scale. This team applies advanced capabilities to real-world interactions — reshaping conversations with customers, learning from every exchange, and finding novel ways to show the value of our technology.

About the Role

We’re looking for backend software engineers with a product mindset to join the GTM Innovation team. You’ll help OpenAI meet the world at scale. You’ll partner closely with go-to-market teams to understand their workflows, identify leverage points, and ship novel solutions using OpenAI’s API platform. You’ll move quickly from prototype to production, and your work will directly shape how customers experience our technology in the field. This role is ideal for engineers who want to be close to users, own end-to-end outcomes, and help define entirely new categories of enterprise software.

In this role, you will:

• Build high-impact applications and tools that accelerate OpenAI’s go-to-market efforts
• Work across the full product lifecycle for GTM: prototype, iterate, ship, and maintain
• Embed with Sales, Technical Success, and Revenue Operations to identify user needs and build for them
• Apply OpenAI’s models in novel ways to solve real-world customer and internal workflow problems
• Translate learnings into feedback for Applied and Research teams to inform product development

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have 4+ years of experience as a software/ML/product engineer working on user-facing systems
• Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch is a plus
• Are fluent in Python or JavaScript and comfortable building full-stack applications
• Have built or prototyped LLM-powered workflows using the OpenAI API (or similar)
• Take initiative, move quickly, and operate with a strong sense of ownership
• Enjoy working closely with end users and shaping 0→1 products
• Are collaborative, curious, and motivated to make an outsized impact at the frontier of AI

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.

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Compensation

$230K – $385K + Offers Equity