# Software Engineer, Gov

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Washington, DC, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $207k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** JavaScript, React, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, AI/ML
**Posted:** 2025-10-17

> Software Engineer building and deploying ChatGPT and OpenAI API features for public sector customers in high-stakes environments. Requires 5+ years experience, JavaScript/React/Python proficiency, infrastructure knowledge, and US citizenship.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the development of new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features end-to-end, both on-premises and in the cloud, for public sector customers.
- Partner and directly embed with teams across the business, including engineering, security, and compliance, to enable products to work within unique constraints of new environments.
- Talk to users to understand their problems and design solutions.
- Work with the research team to get relevant feedback and iterate on latest models, developing solutions specific for public sector customers at both model & data layers.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations to create cutting-edge products.
- Optimize applications for speed and scale.

## Requirements
- US Citizen.
- 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies.
- Proficiency with **JavaScript**, **React**, and other web technologies.
- Proficiency with some backend language (**Python**).
- Some experience with underlying infrastructure primitives like **Kubernetes** and **Terraform**.
- Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required).
- Ability to move fast in an environment with loosely defined priorities or deadlines.
- Interest in enabling public sector use cases with unique requirements.

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