Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation

About the Team

The GTM (Go-To-Market) Innovation team is an internal powerhouse revolutionizing how we engage customers through groundbreaking applications of our technology. As an incubator, we amplify the impact of Sales, Technical Success, Enablement, and Revenue Operations by deploying our technology s team applies advanced capabilities to real‑world interactions, reshaping conversations with customers, learning from every exchange, and finding novel ways to show the value of our technology.

We’re looking for backend software engineers with a product mindset to join the GTM Innovation team. You’ll help OpenAI meet the world at scale by partnering closely with go‑to‑market teams to understand their workflows, identify leverage points, and ship novel solutions using the OpenAI API platform. This role is ideal for engineers who want to be close to users, own end‑to‑end outcomes, and help define entirely new categories of enterprise software.

• Build high‑impact applications and tools that accelerate OpenAI’s go‑to‑market efforts
• Work across the full product lifecycle for GTM: prototype, iterate, ship, and maintain
• Embed with Sales, Technical Success, and Revenue Operations to identify user needs and build for them
• Apply OpenAI’s models in novel ways to solve real‑world customer and internal workflow problems
• Translate learnings into feedback for Applied and Research teams to inform product development

• Have 4+ years of experience as a software/ML/product engineer working on user‑facing systems
• Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch is a plus
• Are fluent in Python or JavaScript and comfortable building full‑stack applications
• Have built or prototyped LLM‑powered workflows using the OpenAI API (or similar)
• Take initiative, move quickly, and operate with a strong sense of ownership
• Enjoy working closely with end users and shaping 0→1 products
• Are collaborative, curious, and motivated to make an outsized impact at the frontier of AI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristic.

Compensation Range: $230,000 – $385,000