Software Engineer, Plugin Ecosystem

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 185,000 - 490,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Product-minded","Problem-solving","Cross-functional collaboration","Communication","Product thinking"]

Build the systems behind ChatGPT and Codex plugins, from APIs and services to experiences that help developers and users discover, install, and run plugins. Improve plugin reliability and interaction quality by diagnosing model–tool failures with Research, and enhance permissions, approvals, and admin controls for safe adoption. Partner across Engineering, Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety to deliver scalable, product-focused infrastructure.

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Software Engineer, Plugin Ecosystem

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Job Summary

Build the systems behind ChatGPT and Codex plugins, from APIs and services to experiences that help developers and users discover, install, and run plugins. Improve plugin reliability and interaction quality by diagnosing model–tool failures with Research, and enhance permissions, approvals, and admin controls for safe adoption. Partner across Engineering, Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety to deliver scalable, product-focused infrastructure.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services that developers use to extend ChatGPT and Codex.
  • •Build experiences that help users discover, install, and use plugins to get more done.
  • •Improve the plugin creation lifecycle, including creation, testing, publishing, updating, and sharing.
  • •Enhance how models use plugins by diagnosing failures with Research and measuring improvements as models evolve.
  • •Improve plugin reliability and interaction quality, including error messages and recovery paths, and build permissions, approvals, and admin controls for safe adoption.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 185,000 - 490,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Relocation

Key Requirements

  • •Care deeply about product quality and can make complex capabilities intuitive for discovering and completing tasks with plugins.
  • •Have strong opinions about APIs and abstractions, and can explain tradeoffs; identity, permissions, or integration-heavy system experience is especially valuable.
  • •Enjoy working with users and developers, understanding goals, and turning recurring problems into platform and tooling improvements.
  • •Can move between product questions and technical details, collaborate across teams, and take an ambiguous problem through production.
  • •Are comfortable working across web interfaces and backend systems; experience building applied AI systems and measuring reliability/quality is especially valuable.
Experience:Applied AIOpen standards
Skills:Product-mindedProblem-solvingCross-functional collaborationCommunicationProduct thinking
Tech Stack:APIsSDKsChatGPTCodexModel Context Protocol (MCP)PluginsWeb interfacesBackend systems

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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