Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise Technology VerticalNew$441K–$500K

San FranciscoTechnology

The opportunity

Enterprise Verticals builds role-specific ChatGPT Work experiences for high-value enterprise workflows. We combine product engineering, plugins and skills, connectors, data, evaluations, and customer evidence to turn useful demos into reliable daily work.

What you'll do

  • Set the technical direction for role-specific enterprise AI experiences, and: personally design, build, and ship their most critical components across ChatGPT Work surfaces, services, plugins, and connectors.

  • Turn ambiguous customer and design-partner needs into a clear, generalizable: product and technical strategy, with explicit milestones, architectural decisions, and measurable quality and adoption goals.

  • Lead complex initiatives across Design, Research, GTM, Security, and platform: teams; align senior stakeholders; make consequential tradeoffs; and drive decisions through to implementation.

  • Architect production-grade systems and establish the evaluation,: instrumentation, security, reliability, staged-rollout, and rollback standards required to operate probabilistic AI experiences safely.

  • Own the complete product and engineering lifecycle: problem definition, technical design, hands-on prototyping, production implementation, launch, customer feedback, and sustained iteration.

  • Define durable technical contracts and fallback strategies across connectors,: identity, permissions, enterprise data, model routing, and shared platform dependencies; raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews, mentorship, and reusable patterns.

What they're looking for

  • Extensive experience personally building and operating full-stack production: products, including modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript and backend services in Python, Go, Node.js, or comparable languages.
  • A track record of setting technical direction for complex, integration-heavy: or distributed systems, with deep understanding of APIs, data models, enterprise identity, authorization, secure data flows, and partial-failure behavior.
  • Demonstrated ownership of business-critical production systems at scale,: including architecture, performance, observability, testing, incident response, migrations, staged delivery, and operational excellence.
  • Experience shipping applied AI, agentic, or conversational products, with a: practical understanding of model behavior, tool use, grounding, evaluations, human feedback, and the reliability challenges of probabilistic systems.
  • Experience designing and building sophisticated workflow, data, analytics,: visualization, or insight products that make complex systems genuinely useful to enterprise users.
  • A strong record of leading through technical judgment, mentoring experienced: engineers, shaping cross-team architecture, and connecting engineering decisions to measurable customer outcomes and sustained adoption.