# Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $230k – $385k/yr
**Skills:** Python, System Design, Backend Services, APIs, Workflow Systems, Enterprise Integrations, RAG, Multi-Agent Workflows, Data Architecture, Evals
**Posted:** 2026-05-19

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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