Software Engineer, Ad FormatsActive$347K–$445K

The opportunity

The Monetization team is a new cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build the foundational systems that will help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. Our mission is to develop user-first, privacy-preserving monetization…

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and scale the creative rendering and presentation systems that power OpenAI’s ads experiences.

  • Develop infrastructure and tooling for ad formats across text, image, video,: native, conversational, and interactive surfaces.

  • Define how ads are structured, rendered, validated, and delivered across: ChatGPT and other OpenAI product experiences.

  • Build systems that ensure ads render reliably, perform efficiently, and meet: high quality standards across platforms.

  • Partner closely with Product, Design, and Research to prototype and ship ad: experiences that feel native to the core ChatGPT experience.

  • Architect distributed systems and services with strong reliability,: usability, privacy, and performance guarantees.

What they're looking for

  • Drive 0→1 product development through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment.
  • Contribute to technical strategy, propose new directions, and help shape the: roadmap for OpenAI’s ads formats platform.
  • Maintain high engineering rigor through strong testing, documentation,: observability, and operational best practices.
  • Uphold the highest levels of safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance: across all ad rendering and delivery systems.