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Software Engineer, Ad Formats

OpenAI· Applied AI
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$347k - $445k + bonusFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer to build the creative rendering and presentation layer of OpenAI’s ads ecosystem, defining how ads are structured, rendered, and delivered across surfaces, platforms, and media types within OpenAI’s ChatGPT experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale the creative rendering and presentation systems that power OpenAI’s ads experiences.
  • Develop infrastructure and tooling for ad formats across text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive surfaces.
  • Define how ads are structured, rendered, validated, and delivered across ChatGPT and other OpenAI product experiences.
  • Build systems that ensure ads render reliably, perform efficiently, and meet high quality standards across platforms.
  • Partner closely with Product, Design, and Research to prototype and ship ad experiences that feel native to the core ChatGPT experience.
  • Architect distributed systems and services with strong reliability, usability, privacy, and performance guarantees.
  • Drive 0→1 product development through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment.
  • Contribute to technical strategy, propose new directions, and help shape the roadmap for OpenAI’s ads formats platform.
  • Maintain high engineering rigor through strong testing, documentation, observability, and operational best practices.
  • Uphold the highest levels of safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance across all ad rendering and delivery systems.

Qualifications

  • Have 7+ years of experience building high-scale consumer product experiences, creative systems, ads systems, or platform infrastructure.
  • Have a track record of architecting and delivering complex systems that power user-facing experiences across multiple surfaces.
  • Care deeply about product quality, performance, reliability, and the details of how experiences render for users.
  • Are comfortable working at the intersection of frontend systems, backend infrastructure, design, and product strategy.
  • Bring strong product intuition and enjoy collaborating deeply with Product, Design, and Research.
  • Thrive in 0→1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences must be defined from scratch.
  • Communicate clearly, think holistically, and make decisions rooted in both user needs and long-term sustainability.
  • Are motivated by building privacy-preserving, safe, and user-first monetization systems.
  • Bonus: Have experience with ads formats, creative rendering systems, content delivery, design systems, media platforms, or interactive product experiences.

Skills

Required:Experience designing and delivering high-scale ad/creative rendering systemsFrontend/backend system integrationProduct collaboration

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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