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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform

Build internal AI-native apps, MCP connectors, multi-agent workflows, and reusable platform components for enterprise operations across Finance, People, and GTM. Strong Python, system design, enterprise integrations, and applied AI experience required.

230k – 385k
On-siteBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build internal apps for enterprise operations across Finance, People, and GTM
  • Build MCP connectors and enterprise integrations with strong auth, permissions, idempotency, retries, and rate-limit handling
  • Design end-to-end multi-agent workflows with tool routing, human approvals, audit trails, and safe action boundaries
  • Design data architecture for operational AI systems, including ingestion, schemas, quality checks, lineage, and governance
  • Build evals, monitoring, metrics, and regression tests for agentic workflows
  • Create reusable infrastructure, patterns, and components that other enterprise teams can build on
  • Partner with system owners and business owners to turn messy enterprise workflows into reliable internal products

Requirements

  • Strong Python engineering skills for backend services, MCP connectors, agent/tool workflows, eval harnesses, and data ingestion jobs
  • Strong system design skills across shared infrastructure, app architecture, reliability, and scaling
  • Experience building internal apps, backend services, APIs, workflow systems, or integration platforms
  • Understanding of enterprise systems, including controls, approvals, auditability, compliance, and permissions
  • Practical AI systems experience with RAG, evals, monitoring, MCP/tool use, structured outputs, or multi-agent workflows
  • Strong data architecture fundamentals, including ingestion, modeling, quality, lineage, and governance
  • Clear communication with technical stakeholders, system owners, and business owners
  • High ownership in ambiguous, cross-functional environments

Skills

PythonSystem DesignBackend ServicesAPIsWorkflow SystemsEnterprise IntegrationsRAGMulti-Agent WorkflowsData ArchitectureEvals

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