167 engineering jobs found in San Francisco, CA

About the Team Our team turns OpenAI's latest model capabilities into polished, trusted products for consumers and developers. We build the end-to-end experiences including product surfaces, platform layers, and developer workflows that make cutting-edge AI accessible, useful, and dependable at scale. OpenAI's Financial Engineering (FinEng) team powers how revenue flows through our products - pricing and packaging, checkout, payments, subscriptions, and the financial infrastructure behind them. We partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Finance, and Go-to-Market to make paying for OpenAI products seamless, reliable, and efficient worldwide. We pair rapid innovation with a rigorous approach to responsible deployment. Safety and trust are built into how we design, ship, and learn from real-world usage, so these tools deliver meaningful value while aligning with OpenAI's mission. About the Role We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to scale the product...

About the Team The Answer Experience team is reimagining how people access information and get answers to all their questions in ChatGPT. Working across research, engineering, product, and design, we're building experiences that seamlessly bring together intelligence, real-time information, and rich, interactive visual content. No matter what question a user comes to ChatGPT with, this team makes sure they get the perfect experience. About the Role We're looking for an experienced engineering leader to grow and guide our Answer Experience team. In this role, you will: Hire and manage a diverse, high-performing engineering team Collaborate with teams across research, product, design, and engineering to enable step-change improvements to how ChatGPT answers look and feel Coach engineers to maximize their impact and growth Create an inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of groupthink You might thrive in this...

About the team OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) org sits at the intersection of product, engineering, research, and go-to-market. We take frontier platform capabilities into the real world with design partners, turning raw customer signal into shipped software, repeatable patterns, and durable products. The FDE Platform team is primarily a leverage function that scales the FDE org's impact to OpenAI's platform and products. We provide hands-on leverage by embedding with customer-tagged FDE pods to aid in architecting, product shaping, refactoring, and building. This team is perfect for highly collaborative software engineers who love innovating on cutting-edge products with other builders. About the role Platform Engineer is a role within Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) for strong software and ML engineers who want to build new platform capabilities from scratch, grounded in real customer deployments. You will partner with customer-tagged FDEs who are driving...

About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI's mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Identity Infrastructure Engineering team sits at the core of this effort, designing and building the identity and access management solutions that protect our model weights, customer data, and critical systems across multiple cloud environments. We partner with teams across OpenAI-Applied Engineering, Research, IT, and Security-to provide a secure and scalable platform for permissioning, orchestration, and innovative AI research. About the Role We're looking for a Staff+ Software Engineer to help build and evolve the identity infrastructure that supports OpenAI's research, engineering, and internal platforms. This role sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, identity systems, and software engineering. You'll work across production systems, infrastructure-as-code, cloud control planes, identity providers, and operational...

About the Team The Core Services organization builds and runs the mission-critical online services that product teams rely on in production. We own foundational distributed systems and platform capabilities that enable reliable execution, high-performance services, and large-scale file/data needs across our products. This team is distinct from developer infrastructure and data infrastructure-our focus is production service foundations and core runtime services. About the Role We're hiring an Engineering Manager, Core Services to help lead teams responsible for highly reliable, high-scale distributed systems that sit on the critical path for OpenAI products. Your team will own foundational production systems that OpenAI's product engineering teams build on. You'll collaborate closely with product and infrastructure partners to ship reliable services quickly, and help scale systems and teams as OpenAI grows. You'll partner closely with senior engineering leaders to scale the...

About the Team Identity is the foundation of trust in an AI-powered world. As people build a rich personal and organizational context in ChatGPT, they need systems that protect it, remember it, and let them share it securely across apps and agents. Without strong identity, context stays locked away or exposed. With it, AI becomes safe, personal, and truly useful, empowering users while keeping control firmly in their hands. Our team builds the trusted OpenAI account layer that connects people, enterprises, developers, and agents to OpenAI apps and the broader AI ecosystem. Our systems are the front door to OpenAI-held to an exceptionally high bar for availability, security, and latency-and are depended on by many internal teams. About the Role As an Engineering Manager, Identity Infrastructure, you will lead a team owning foundational identity services that must be highly reliable, secure, and fast under extreme load. You'll set direction, grow and support the team, and...

About the team OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development - working closely with OpenAI Research, Product and Partnerships. About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You'll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components...

About the team OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) org sits at the intersection of product, engineering, research, and go-to-market. We take frontier platform capabilities into the real world with design partners, turning raw customer signal into shipped software, repeatable patterns, and durable products. The FDE Platform team is primarily a leverage function that scales the FDE org's impact to OpenAI's platform and products. We provide hands-on leverage by embedding with customer-tagged FDE pods to aid in architecting, product shaping, refactoring, and building. This team is perfect for highly collaborative software engineers who love innovating on cutting-edge products with other builders. About the role As the Engineering Manager for Platform FDE, you will lead a small team that acts as a multiplier for the broader FDE org. Your mandate is to increase the rate at which customer-grounded ideas become durable, generalizable platform bets, by providing hands-on...

Head of Engineering Location: San Francisco, CA (In-office) Reports to: Arnav Mishra, Co-Founder & CTO About Doss Doss is a modern ERP platform built for how companies actually operate - replacing rigid legacy systems and error-prone spreadsheets with a flexible, AI-native platform that adapts as the business grows. Traditional ERP software is slow to implement, expensive to maintain, and built around processes that no longer reflect how work gets done. Doss was built from first principles to fix this. At the heart of our platform is the Adaptive Resource Platform (ARP) - a modular, AI-native operations platform that unifies data, workflows, and analytics across core business functions. It deploys in weeks, not years, and continues to adapt as your business evolves. Our customers - across consumer goods, manufacturing, and construction - are dramatically compressing operational cycles, eliminating manual work, and replacing disconnected tools with a single...

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios and beyond. About the role: Skydio is built around deep technological investments in autonomy that lead to breakthrough products. We are looking for world-class engineering leaders to scale up the autonomy team to deliver Skydio's vision. Our small team has incredible technical strength in solving complex algorithmic challenges, and needs help growing to meet the product opportunities ahead. You will be responsible for one or more areas of ownership across core drone platforms, SW architecture, simulation, SDK, object detection,...

About Sandia Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs: Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide Extraordinary co-workers Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world Career advancement and enrichment opportunities Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home) Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance* World-changing technologies....

About the Team Safety Systems manages the complete lifecycle of safety efforts for OpenAI's frontier models, ensuring our models are deployed responsibly and have a positive impact on society. Our work spans diverse research and engineering initiatives-from system-level safeguards and model training to evaluation and red-teaming-all aimed at mitigating misuse, misalignment, and maintaining our high bar for safety. We lead OpenAI's commitment to developing and deploying safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), fostering a culture of trust, responsibility, and transparency. Our goal is to continuously learn from deployments, distribute AI's benefits widely, and ensure that powerful tools remain aligned with human values and safety considerations. About the Role We are hiring a Product Manager to focus on cybersecurity risk. In this role, you will drive initiatives which ensure that OpenAI's frontier model deployments are safe, impactful, and aligned with user needs and...

About the team OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) for Life Sciences, you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You'll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will focus on the Life Sciences vertical, partnering with pharmaceutical companies, clinical research organizations, and other data and services providers to deploy next-generation AI capabilities across their drug discovery, development, and operations. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with Life Sciences customers to map workflows and success criteria,...

About the Team The Human Data team at OpenAI is responsible for identifying and mitigating risks in advanced AI systems by designing evaluations, surfacing vulnerabilities, and collaborating closely with researchers to strengthen model reliability and public trust. About the Role As a Technical Program Manager, you will lead initiatives that test the safety and robustness of OpenAI's models through creative experimentation and structured evaluation. You'll coordinate efforts across research and engineering teams to transform ambiguous risks into concrete research programs and influence future model development and deployment. We're looking for people who are technically savvy, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited about shaping the future of safe AI. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Lead programs that explore unexpected model...

About the Team OpenAI's Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is responsible for building the next generation of AI-native silicon while working closely with software and research partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering production-grade silicon for OpenAI's supercomputing infrastructure, the team also creates custom design tools and methodologies that accelerate innovation and enable hardware optimized specifically for AI. About the Role We're seeking a System Software Engineer to join our First-Party Hardware team. In this role, you will design, build, integrate, and validate low-level system software for the manageability and health of OpenAI's first-party AI hardware systems. You will work across BMC, Linux, firmware interfaces, automation infra, boot and recovery, hardware diagnostics, telemetry, host and platform drivers,...

About the Team The Scaling team designs, builds, and operates critical infrastructure that enables research at OpenAI. Our mission is simple: accelerate the progress of research towards AGI. We do this by building core systems that researchers rely on - ranging from low-level infrastructure components to research-facing custom applications. These systems must scale with the increasing complexity and size of our workloads, while remaining reliable and easy to use. About the Role We're looking for an experienced software engineer to own production-critical infrastructure end to end. This role is centered on backend / systems engineering, with emphasis on low-level performance, distributed systems, and hands-on operation of critical services at scale. You'll take ambiguous problems, turn them into concrete plans, ship pragmatic solutions quickly, and improve them through production feedback and iteration. This is not a general Python backend role. We're specifically...

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the full model stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We aim to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the constraints of physical systems to improve people's lives. About the Role As a Research Engineer on the Robotics team, you will develop systems that enable robots to perceive, localize, and reconstruct the world in 3D from multi-camera and multimodal sensor data. You will work on real-time and offline perception pipelines used during teleoperation and robot data collection, as well as scalable systems for reconstructing and tracking 3D structure from large datasets. We're looking for people who combine strong fundamentals in computer vision with practical experience building robust perception systems. The ideal candidate...

About the Team OpenAI's Frontier Evals team designs and builds evaluations that measure the capabilities, limitations, and emerging behaviors of our most advanced models. As a research team, we advance both the science and infrastructure of model evaluation, developing methods, systems, and datasets that help us understand where frontier models succeed, where they fail, and what those results imply for future development and deployment. About the Role As a Technical Program Manager on Frontier Evals, you will drive high-priority evaluation and research programs from concept through design, execution, and analysis. This is a hybrid IC and program management role: you will help design evals, build lightweight technical workflows, manage human data campaigns, create project roadmaps, track execution, and coordinate across researchers, engineers, data teams, vendors, and domain experts. You should be comfortable ramping quickly on unfamiliar topics, turning open-ended research...

About the Team OpenAI's Strategic Finance organization provides the financial insight and guidance that support the company's long-term strategy and ambitious growth. We partner across Product, Partnerships, Engineering, and GTM to allocate resources to the highest-impact opportunities while preserving sustainable unit economics. The Applications Technology Strategic Finance team works closely with Product and Engineering to scale core offerings and bring new products to market. We lead revenue forecasting and performance management across the product portfolio, including economic margins, pricing, and partnership pricing and deal structuring. We also partner closely with the Infrastructure Engineering team to forecast infrastructure and compute demand and to manage margin targets and headcount planning with rigor. About the Role We are hiring a Director of Product Finance, Infrastructure and Compute Demand to help drive strategic decision-making across our product...

About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Revenue team plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to scale its commercial offerings - overseeing billing operations, deal desk, revenue systems, and revenue accounting. We work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to support new monetization strategies, improve operational efficiency, and maintain financial integrity as the business grows. About the Role As OpenAI scales monetization across self-serve, enterprise, partnerships, ads, and emerging business models, we need a strong operator to bridge Revenue business needs with technical execution. This role will sit at the center of Finance, Systems, and Engineering to ensure revenue capabilities are designed, prioritized, tested, and launched in a scalable and controlled way. The Revenue Enablement Senior Manager will own the business-side systems roadmap for Revenue,...