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Mid LevelFull-timeRustAWSGoAIML
Salary Range
$102,000 - $138,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
Platform Engineer is a role within Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) at OpenAI for strong software and ML engineers who want to build new platform capabilities from scratch, grounded in real customer deployments. You'll join a small team working in pods against platform bets rather than a single long-running account.
Key Responsibilities
- →Architect and build new platform capabilities, turning frontier customer signal into concrete designs, implementations, and APIs
- →Incubate platform bets end-to-end, taking ambiguous problems and forming crisp hypotheses
- →Embed with design partners to learn fast and translate needs into product and platform requirements
- →Partner with customer-tagged FDEs in the field to deploy and debug together
- →Design and run pilot programs to harden both the platform and the rollout playbook
- →Collaborate as part of cross-functional platform teams with core product and engineering counterparts
- →Drive adoption outcomes by measuring usage and identifying blockers
Requirements
- ✓5+ years of software engineering or ML engineering experience with a track record of shipping 0→1 capabilities
- ✓Experience in high-ambiguity, fast-iteration environments is a plus
- ✓Ownership of customer-adjacent technical work end-to-end, from scoping through production adoption
- ✓Experience building or operating systems where reliability, security, and governance shaped design
- ✓Ability to communicate clearly across engineering, product, go-to-market, and executive audiences
- ✓Systems thinking approach to turn ambiguous feedback into durable product requirements and reusable platform capabilities
Benefits
- ★Relocation assistance
- ★Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
- ★Optional-by-project travel typically <10%
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