About the Position

Software Engineer, Codex Enterprise

San Francisco

About the Team

With Codex, we’re building an AI software engineer. One that you can pair with, delegate to, or even ask to take on future tasks proactively. Our team is a fast-moving group within OpenAI, bringing together research, engineering, design, and product. We iteratively build the Codex agent harness and product to get the most out of the model, and we iteratively train the model to be great at complex software engineering tasks.

The Codex team is responsible for building state-of-the-art AI systems that can write code, reason about software, and act as intelligent agents for developers and non-developers alike. We operate across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure; owning the full lifecycle of experimentation, deployment, and iteration on novel coding capabilities.

Codex Enterprise builds the ecosystem building blocks, discovery surfaces, and enterprise capabilities that help Codex spread across developers, teams, and organizations worldwide. It is a cross-cutting team that works across the stack to build both delightful product experiences and fundamental platform capabilities. Its customers range from individual developers and small teams to large enterprises, and our mission is critical to achieving the vision of Codex as a proactive teammate.

About the Role

As we grow, we’re focused on turning Codex from a powerful individual tool into a production-grade teammate for entire organizations. You will work across internal OpenAI teams and external customers, from fast-moving startups to large enterprises, to make it possible to deploy, operate, and trust Codex in increasingly demanding real-world environments.

As Codex’s consumer adoption accelerates, enterprise demand is growing just as quickly, and there is also increasing opportunity to expand Codex through ecosystem capabilities that unlock new workflows, integrations, and discovery. This team helps turn messy, real-world team requirements into robust, repeatable, and scalable product and platform capabilities.

You will work directly with a small set of deeply engaged design-partner customers using their real deployments to surface opportunities, and what’s required for Codex to succeed inside modern engineering organizations. Those insights will drive what you build across product, infrastructure, deployment patterns, and ecosystem capabilities for all teams using Codex.

This role owns systems end-to-end: from architecture and implementation to production operations with a strong bias for both quality and velocity.

In this role, you will:

Shape the evolution of Codex by identifying how teams actually use (and break) AI-powered software engineering, and driving changes across product, infrastructure, ecosystem surfaces, and model behavior to make Codex a truly reliable teammate for organizations.
Build the core ecosystem, team, and enterprise primitives that make Codex usable at scale, including plugins, skills, hooks, discovery surfaces, RBAC, admin and audit surfaces, usage, rate limits and pricing controls, managed configuration and constraints, and analytics that give teams and operators deep visibility into how Codex is being used.
Design and own secure, observable, full-stack systems that power Codex across web, IDEs, CLI, and CI/CD, integrating with enterprise identity and governance systems (SSO/SAML/OIDC, SCIM, policy enforcement) and building data-access patterns that are performant, compliant, and trustworthy.
Help shape real-world deployments and launches by working directly with customers, the Forward Deployed team, and the Go To Market team (GTM) to roll Codex out across teams, using live usage and operational signals to rapidly iterate and turn messy, real-world feedback into scalable product, platform, and ecosystem improvements.

Requirements

Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience turning ideas into productionized systems, thinking holistically about speed, performance, and user experience.
Proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust) and distributed systems concepts, with a focus on reliability, observability, and security.
Experience with team/enterprise foundations such as identity and access (SAML/OIDC), SCIM, RBAC, audit/compliance logging, policy enforcement, and data governance controls.
Ability to work directly with users/customers (or alongside GTM/solutions teams), and translate messy, diverse requirements into opinionated implementations that scale across many teams.
Enjoy 0 -> 1 environments, can navigate ambiguity, and bring crisp product thinking to technical trade-offs.

Nice to Have

Cross-cutting platform capabilities that unlock product velocity.
Experience with APIs and extensibility systems.
Scalable product thinking.

We Offer

Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technology.
Collaborative and innovative work environment.
Competitive compensation package.

About the Company

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.

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Software Engineer, Codex Enterprise

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