The opportunity
About the Team API Agents builds the shared agent harness, tools, and infrastructure that turn OpenAI’s frontier models into systems that can reliably complete real work. We carry the capabilities behind Codex into a much broader set of products and workflows across software…
What they're looking for
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust,: TypeScript, or similar, with the ability to move comfortably across service, platform, and product boundaries.
- Strong systems design and operational judgment across distributed systems,: APIs, workflow orchestration, search or storage, compute and execution, identity and permissions, or observability and reliability.
- Infrastructure depth paired with product judgment: you can abstract complex systems into simple, durable primitives that other engineers and developers can build on.
- Strong developer empathy and communication skills, including experience: partnering with users, research teams, and product engineers to make fast-moving capabilities useful and dependable.