The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

Strategic Initiatives, Codex
About the Team
The Codex team is building AI systems that can write code, reason about software, and act as autonomous collaborators for engineers. Our goal is to transform how software is built—moving from tools that assist developers to agents that can take on meaningful chunks of work independently.

Strategic Initiatives sits at the intersection of research, engineering, product, and go-to-market. We focus on high-leverage, ambiguous problems that accelerate Codex adoption, shape the product, and unlock new use cases.

About the Role
We’re hiring technical generalists to work on 0→1 and 1→n initiatives for Codex. In this role you’ll identify important problems, prototype solutions quickly, and drive them through to real-world impact.

You might build new agent workflows, partner with leading companies to deploy Codex in production, or design entirely new product surfaces. The common thread: you operate where the path isn’t obvious yet.

This is a high-autonomy, high-context role for people who like to figure things out from first principles and ship quickly.

What You’ll Do

• Identify and execute on high-impact, ambiguous opportunities across the Codex ecosystem

• Prototype and ship agent-driven workflows, tools, and integrations

• Work directly with users and customers to understand real-world developer needs

• Translate messy problems into concrete technical solutions and product directions

• Collaborate across research, engineering, and product to shape Codex capabilities and roadmap

• Build demos, internal tools, or production systems that accelerate adoption

• Help define best practices for using AI agents in software development workflows

• Codex can already perform tasks like writing features, fixing bugs, and proposing changes autonomously—your job is to figure out what becomes possible because of that.

• Who You Are

• Strong software engineer or technical builder (any stack)

• Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

• Proven track record of shipping projects end-to-end

• Curious and pragmatic—you can go from idea → prototype → iteration quickly

• Interested in AI, but not necessarily an ML specialist

• Able to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to Have

• Experience building developer tools, infrastructure, or internal platforms

• Experience working with APIs, automation, or workflow systems

• Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Codex, Copilot, Cursor, etc.)

• Experience in startups, early-stage teams, or new product launches

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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Compensation Range: $230K - $325K