# Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** GTM Engineering
**Salary:** $230k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Python, JavaScript, OpenAI API, LLMs, Full-Stack, Machine Learning, APIs
**Posted:** 2026-02-04

> Build high-impact backend applications using OpenAI's API to accelerate go-to-market efforts, partnering with sales and operations teams. Requires 4+ years experience in software/ML engineering, Python/JavaScript fluency, and LLM workflow prototyping.

## Job Description

## In this role, you will:
- Build high-impact applications and tools that accelerate OpenAI’s go-to-market efforts
- Work across the full product lifecycle for GTM: prototype, iterate, ship, and maintain
- Embed with Sales, Technical Success, and Revenue Operations to identify user needs and build for them
- Apply OpenAI’s models in novel ways to solve real-world customer and internal workflow problems
- Translate learnings into feedback for Applied and Research teams to inform product development

## You’ll thrive in this role if you:
- Have 4+ years of experience as a software/ML/product engineer working on user-facing systems
- Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch is a plus
- Are fluent in **Python** or **JavaScript** and comfortable building full-stack applications
- Have built or prototyped LLM-powered workflows using the **OpenAI API** (or similar)
- Take initiative, move quickly, and operate with a strong sense of ownership
- Enjoy working closely with end users and shaping 0→1 products
- Are collaborative, curious, and motivated to make an outsized impact at the frontier of AI

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