# Software Engineer, Ad Formats
**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $230K-$385K
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Frontend Systems, Backend Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Creative Rendering, Ad Formats, Content Delivery, Design Systems, Media Platforms, Interactive Experiences, Privacy-Preserving Systems
**Posted:** 2026-05-26
> 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.
## Job Description
## 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.
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