Software Engineer, API Agents
Openai · San Francisco
- Level
- Not stated
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-10-09
- Compensation
- $266K – $445K • Offers Equity
- Team
- Core Product & Platform, Core Product & Platform | API
Role description
About the Team API Agents builds the shared agent harness, tools, and infrastructure that turn OpenAI’s frontier models into systems that can reliably complete real work. We carry the capabilities behind Codex into a much broader set of products and workflows across software engineering, research, finance, healthcare, enterprise operations, and more. Our work spans search and connected context, computer use, memory, delegation and multi-agent coordination, and safe execution. Sitting at the intersection of Research, Codex, infrastructure, and applied product teams, we build reusable agent capabilities that compound across the ecosystem.…
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