Software Engineer, Marketing Innovation
About the team Marketing Innovation is a product engineering team embedded within OpenAI’s broader Demand Gen and Marketing organization. The team builds agentic, AI‑native systems that directly drive revenue, pipeline, and marketing leverage.
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Software Engineer, Marketing Innovation 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 Marketing Innovation is a product engineering team embedded within OpenAI’s broader Demand Gen and Marketing organization. The team builds agentic, AI‑native systems that directly drive revenue, pipeline, and marketing leverage.
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- Build autonomous and semi‑autonomous customer‑facing and internal agentic systems that directly drive Revenue, Pipeline, and Marketing efficiency.
- Own end‑to‑end product execution, from early prototypes to reliable production systems with strong instrumentation and evals.
- Work across the full stack, including APIs, orchestration, data flows, frontend experiences, and deployment.
- Partner closely with marketing, demand gen, and enterprise sales stakeholders to define success metrics and functional requirements.
- Apply OpenAI models and tooling in novel ways, making informed tradeoffs between models, platforms, and architectures.
- Continuously iterate based on live usage, agent behavior, and performance data.
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- Apply OpenAI models and tooling in novel ways, making informed tradeoffs between models, platforms, and architectures.
- Continuously iterate based on live usage, agent behavior, and performance data.
- Have 4+ years of experience as a software, product, or ML engineer working on user‑ or customer‑facing systems.
- Have built, deployed, or operated complex systems in production, ideally including agents or automation at scale.
- Are comfortable working without a groomed backlog and enjoy framing problems, proposing solutions, and executing end‑to‑end.
- Are fluent in Python or JavaScript and comfortable building full‑stack applications.
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