Software Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform
Openai · San Francisco
- Level
- Not stated
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-08-18
- Compensation
- $185K – $490K • Offers Equity
- Team
- Applied AI, Applied AI Engineering
Role description
About the Team The Plugin Developer Platform team builds the APIs, SDKs, and tools that let people extend ChatGPT and Codex. We work on plugins, connectors, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and interactive apps. We want anyone to be able to turn a useful workflow into a plugin, share it, and have other people use it. A plugin can package instructions and skills with connections to the tools and data it needs. Our work covers plugin creation and publishing, the systems that run plugins across our products, and open standards that developers can build on. About the Role We’re looking for platform-minded engineers who know what it takes to build a platform developers want to use.…
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