Partner-Facing AI Plugins Engineer

Fdetimes; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to design, build, evaluate, submit, launch, and maintain high-utility plugins for ChatGPT and Codex. You will lead partner engagements, translate needs into production-ready integrations, and work across product and engineering teams to ensure successful deployments.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, platform improvements, and robust developer experience, with a hybrid SF office and relocation support.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building production APIs, backend services, developer platforms, apps, plugins, connectors, or integrations.
• Strong product sense and ability to translate ambiguous ideas into runnable prototypes and technical guidance.
• Excellent written communication for docs, launch plans, and partner-facing guidance.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical partner journey for priority B2B plugins from pitch through launch and maintenance.
• Identify strong plugin use cases and define user journeys to create meaningful value.
• Write production and sample code, build prototypes, and create technical guidance for evaluations, launch checklists, and debugging tools.
• Debug API contracts, OAuth/login, tool invocation, latency, observability, and data handling across systems.
• Review partner architectures for API design, scopes, permissions, and long-term maintainability.
• Contribute fixes to plugins platform, APIs, SDKs, and docs to enable smooth launches.
• Coordinate with product, engineering, design, partnerships, legal, policy, and GTM teams for repeatable launches.

Skills

Software engineering

API design

Communication

Code prototyping

Tools

OAuth

APIs

SDKs

Webhooks

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to design, build, evaluate, submit, launch, and maintain high-utility plugins for ChatGPT and Codex. You will lead partner engagements, translate needs into production-ready integrations, and work across product and engineering teams to ensure successful deployments.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, platform improvements, and robust developer experience, with a hybrid SF office and relocation support.