Software Engineer – API SDK - OpenAI

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. Most recently, we’ve released o1, gpt-4o, the realtime API, structured outputs, distillation, prompt caching, and many other products and features.

 About the Role

We are looking for a software engineer to own the official SDKs that power the OpenAI API. Currently offered in Python, Node.js, Golang, and others – our SDKs are some of the most popular in the world, and we believe may be the most popular AI provider SDKs. You will help shape the development 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 API 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 a nice to have, but not 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.

• Own 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.

 You might thrive in this role if you: 

• Can thrive and operate independently in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous requirements and goals

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

• Are an engineer at heart, but are willing to lean into product decisions

• Have previous experience maintaining SDKs or building SDK generation software

About OpenAI

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. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

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

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