Software Engineer, Codex Enterprise
OpenAI
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Applied AI
Compensation
- $255K – $325K • Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
About the Team
With Codex we’re building an AI software engineer. One that you can pair with, delegate to, or even ask to take on future tasks proactively. Our team is a fast-moving group within OpenAI, bringing together research, engineering, design, and product. We iteratively build the Codex agent harness and product to get the most out of the model, and we iteratively train the model to be great at complex software engineering tasks.
The Codex team is responsible for building state-of-the-art AI systems that can write code, reason about software, and act as intelligent agents for developers and non-developers alike. We operate across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure; owning the full lifecycle of experimentation, deployment, and iteration on novel coding capabilities.
The Codex Enterprise sub-team’s mission is to bring the world’s most powerful software engineer to the world’s largest companies safely, securely, and at scale.
About the Role
This role is for a software engineer working on Codex, with a specific focus on making it work well for our largest customers. You’ll work directly with customers, Go To Market (GTM) teams, and other engineers and researchers across Codex and OpenAI. You will turn diverse enterprise requirements into products that scale across organizations. The role bridges what enterprises need and what the broader Codex team builds, ensuring that enterprise capabilities are robust, repeatable, and deeply aligned with how developers work in real-world environments. You’ll own systems end-to-end (architecture, implementation, production operations) with a strong bias for both quality and velocity.
In this role, you will:
Ship enterprise-grade capabilities for Codex, including analytics and usage reporting, audit and compliance logging, sandbox and permissioning, admin roles and policy controls, regional execution and data residency, and on-prem orchestration.
Design and build robust, full-stack services and APIs that power Codex across all surfaces including web, CLI, IDEs, Slack, and CI/CD, with strong observability and SLOs.
Integrate with enterprise identity and governance systems (e.g., SSO/SAML/OIDC, SCIM, RBAC, policy enforcement), and build data-access patterns that are secure, performant, and compliant for large customers.
Work closely with GTM teams and directly with enterprises to understand real-world developer workflows.
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, research, design, and customer teams to deliver quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality and user experience.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience turning ideas into productionized systems, thinking holistically about speed, performance, and user experience.
Are proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust) and distributed systems concepts, with a focus on reliability, observability, and security.
Have built developer tools (CLI/IDE/SDK) or agent/sandboxed execution environments, especially in, or for, large enterprises. Experience delivering software on-prem would be a bonus..
Have hands-on experience with enterprise and large-platform foundations such as identity (SAML/OIDC), SCIM, RBAC, audit logging, and data retention controls.
Have experience working directly with customers as a customer engineer, solutions engineer or forward-deployed engineer.
Enjoy 0 -> 1 environments, can navigate ambiguity, and bring crisp product thinking to technical trade-offs.
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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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Compensation Range: $255K - $325K