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Software Engineer, Ad Formats
Software Engineer building the creative rendering and presentation layer for OpenAI’s ads ecosystem. Define and scale ad formats (text, image, video, native, conversational) across ChatGPT and other surfaces.
230k – 385kSan Francisco, CAFullstack EngineeringHybrid7+ YOE
About the role
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale the creative rendering and presentation systems that power OpenAI’s ads experiences.
- Develop infrastructure and tooling for ad formats across text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive surfaces.
- Define how ads are structured, rendered, validated, and delivered across ChatGPT and other OpenAI product experiences.
- Build systems that ensure ads render reliably, perform efficiently, and meet high quality standards across platforms.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and Research to prototype and ship ad experiences that feel native to the core ChatGPT experience.
- Architect distributed systems and services with strong reliability, usability, privacy, and performance guarantees.
- Drive 0→1 product development through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment.
- Contribute to technical strategy, propose new directions, and help shape the roadmap for OpenAI’s ads formats platform.
- Maintain high engineering rigor through strong testing, documentation, observability, and operational best practices.
- Uphold the highest levels of safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance across all ad rendering and delivery systems.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building high-scale consumer product experiences, creative systems, ads systems, or platform infrastructure.
- Track record of architecting and delivering complex systems that power user-facing experiences across multiple surfaces.
- Comfortable working at the intersection of frontend systems, backend infrastructure, design, and product strategy.
- Strong product intuition and enjoy collaborating deeply with Product, Design, and Research.
- Thrive in 0→1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences must be defined from scratch.
- Motivated by building privacy-preserving, safe, and user-first monetization systems.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with ads formats, creative rendering systems, content delivery, design systems, media platforms, or interactive product experiences.
Skills
Frontend SystemsBackend InfrastructureDistributed SystemsCreative RenderingAd FormatsContent DeliveryDesign SystemsMedia PlatformsInteractive ExperiencesPrivacy-Preserving Systems
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