Software Engineer, API Frontiers at OpenAI
- Company: OpenAI
- Location: Remote / New York City
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $266K – $445K • Offers Equity
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Technologies: OpenAI
About the role
About the Team API Frontiers turns OpenAI’s frontier models into production APIs that developers can use to build reliable products and agents. We own the core path connecting models to developers through the Responses API, with a focus on safety, reliability, and speed. Working closely with Research, Safety, Codex, and other API teams, we bring new model capabilities into production and improve them through developer feedback. About the Role We are looking for a backend software engineer to build and operate the services behind the Responses API. You will shape API behavior, bring new capabilities from research into production, and make long-running agent workflows dependable and fast. The work combines distributed systems engineering with product judgment: designing useful developer interfaces, managing staged rollouts, and following production issues through to durable fixes.…
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