Software Engineer, API SDK

Location

San Francisco;
New York City;
Seattle

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Applied AI

Compensation

• $293K – $385K
  • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following 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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• 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, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

About the Team

Our team brings OpenAI’s most capable technology to the world through our developer platform: the OpenAI API. As the leading AI development platform, our API is used by millions of developers and the majority of enterprises around the world, and powers the majority of AI applications that you may use on a daily basis. The platform supports everything from simple model calls to stateful, multimodal, tool-using applications through the Responses API, Agents SDK, Realtime API, and more.

Our SDKs turn that fast-moving platform into reliable, idiomatic developer experiences across languages.

About the Role

We are looking for a software engineer to help build the official SDKs that power the OpenAI API. Currently offered in Python, Node.js, Golang, Java, and Ruby – our SDKs are some of the most popular in the world. You will help shape the developer experience for all new API features, as well as all future versions of our APIs. We are looking for engineers who will sweat the details about SDK design, who love building for AI developers, and who believe in the potential for AI to transform the world for the better.

Prior experience building SDKs is lovely, but not absolutely necessary.

In this role, you will:

• Define and implement the SDK experience for all new API features, as well as all future versions of our API.

• Build and maintain our systems to make SDK maintenance and generation streamlined and automated.

• Contribute to our SDK strategy and roadmap, including which languages to support and what features to support.

• Collaborate closely with the rest of the API team, our Developer Experience team, and our GTM team to make our SDKs the best in the world.

• Work directly with developers adding features, fixing issues, and contributing to documentation.

Your background might look something like:

• 7+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies

• You love building for other developers, and thrive on feedback from opinionated users

• You thrive working in the open source community, and love engaging directly with developers

• You can thrive and operate independently in a fast-paced environment with…