OpenAI

AI

SoftwareEngineer,APISDK

$293–385k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Engineer, API SDK at OpenAI. Skills: SDK design, API features, developer experience. Define and implement SDK experience. Build and maintain systems”

Industry & Context.

AI

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years of professional engineering experience

Nice to Have

Prior experience building SDKs, experience maintaining SDKs, building SDK generation software

What You'll Do.

Define and implement SDK experience

Build and maintain systems

Contribute to SDK strategy

Collaborate with API team

Work directly with developers

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate closely with the rest of the API team; our Developer Experience team; our GTM team

Full Job Description

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 oth

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