Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
About the Team The Applied AI team safely brings OpenAI's technology to the world. We released ChatGPT, Plugins, DALL·E, and the APIs for GPT-4, GPT-3, embeddings, and fine-tuning.
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Software Engineer, Developer Productivity at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team The Applied AI team safely brings OpenAI's technology to the world. We released ChatGPT, Plugins, DALL·E, and the APIs for GPT-4, GPT-3, embeddings, and fine-tuning.
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- Drive the design, development, and implementation of tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering velocity, reduce manual effort, and increase the quality of output.
- Use our latest AI tools to re-think how we can be the most productive team in the industry.
- Work closely with various teams within OpenAI to understand their workflows, challenges, and needs, and ensure the tools and systems built by the Engineering Acceleration team address these requirements.
- Bring new features and research capabilities to the world by partnering with product engineers to lay the necessary technical foundations.
- Guide and advise product engineering teams on best practices for ensuring observable, scalable systems.
- Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed.
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- Bring new features and research capabilities to the world by partnering with product engineers to lay the necessary technical foundations.
- Guide and advise product engineering teams on best practices for ensuring observable, scalable systems.
- Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed.
- Have 5+ years of experience in engineering, including 3+ years of experience in infrastructure building tooling for developers.
- Have experience-driven empathy for the tools, frustrations, and processes that slow engineering teams down and lead to toil or burnout.
- Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills—and an equally strong talent for sharing learnings clearly and concisely with others.
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- Drive the design, development, and implementation of tools, systems, and processes that accelerate engineering velocity, reduce manual effort, and increase the quality of output.
- Use our latest AI tools to re-think how we can be the most productive team in the industry.
- Work closely with various teams within OpenAI to understand their workflows, challenges, and needs, and ensure the tools and systems built by the Engineering Acceleration team address these requirements.
- Bring new features and research capabilities to the world by partnering with product engineers to lay the necessary technical foundations.
- Guide and advise product engineering teams on best practices for ensuring observable, scalable systems.
- Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed.
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