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Occasional travel to customer sites is required for this role.\n\nThis position requires U.S. person status as defined by the applicable government contract.\n\nIn this role, you will:\n\nOwn the development of new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features end-to-end, both on-premises and in the cloud, for our public sector customers.\n\nPartner and directly embed with teams across the business, including engineering, security, and compliance, to enable our products to work within the unique constraints of new environments.\n\nTalk to users to understand their problems and design solutions to address them\n\nWork with the research team to get relevant feedback and iterate on their latest models, developing solutions specific for public sector customers at both the model & data layers.\n\nCollaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations folks to create cutting-edge products\n\nOptimize applications for speed and scale\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\n\n9+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies\n\nProficiency with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies\n\nProficiency with some backend language (we use Python)\n\nSome experience with underlying infrastructure primitives like Kubernetes and Terraform\n\nInterest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)\n\nAbility to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines\n\nAn interest in enabling public sector use cases with unique requirements\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. 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