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Applied AI Engineer, Plugins

OpenAI· Go To Market
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$197k - $280kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Hands-on, partner-facing product engineering role to design, build, evaluate, submit, launch, and maintain high-utility plugins for ChatGPT and Codex. Works across partner and OpenAI teams to identify use cases, prototype implementations, run evaluations, and guide launches and post-launch iteration.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical partner journey for priority B2B plugins—from pitch and readiness assessment through architecture, build, evaluation, submission, launch, and ongoing maintenance.
  • Identify strong plugin use cases, define crisp user journeys and expected behaviors, and help partners focus on workflows where ChatGPT or Codex can create meaningful user value.
  • Write production and sample code, build prototypes and reference implementations, and create the technical guidance, evals, launch checklists, and debugging tools that move partners from concept to production.
  • Debug API contracts, OAuth/login, tool invocation, latency, retries, rate limits, observability, data model, and user-experience issues across partner and OpenAI systems.
  • Review partner architectures and implementation plans for API design, scopes and permissions, data handling, safety, privacy, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Contribute targeted fixes and improvements to ChatGPT, Codex, and the plugins platform, including APIs, SDKs, docs, examples, internal tooling, partner debugging workflows, and launch guardrails.
  • Work with product, engineering, design, partnerships, legal, policy, support, and go-to-market teams to make partner launches smooth and repeatable.
  • Bring structured signal from partners back to product and engineering, and turn patterns from successful launches into reusable playbooks, examples, platform requirements, and implementation guidance.

Qualifications

  • 4-6 years of professional software engineering experience
  • Built and operated production APIs, backend services, developer platforms, apps, plugins, connectors, or integrations
  • Strong product sense and ability to distinguish a plugin that works from one that is genuinely useful
  • Clear communication with external engineers, product leaders, executives, and internal stakeholders
  • Ability to make ambiguous partner ideas concrete through runnable prototypes, API contracts, technical specs, and pragmatic guidance
  • Comfort reading unfamiliar code, making targeted platform changes, and debugging distributed systems with logs, traces, metrics, and experiments
  • Care deeply about user trust, privacy, data handling, and product quality in AI-powered experiences
  • Ability to balance urgency with judgment and keep launches moving while being precise about details

Skills

Required:Software engineeringAPI design and production APIs
Nice to have:OAuth/loginPartner-facing communication

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
  • 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 additional paid coordinated company office closures
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)
  • Details available during hiring process
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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