Principal Software Engineer
OpenAISeattle, WAhybrid$323K–$607KEnterprisePosted 8d ago · Sep 5, 2026
OpenAI is hiring a principal software engineer to work on software engineering for frontier ai lab and the fastest-scaling consumer ai product company.
What you would own
- Design, build and operate services that carry production traffic.
- Raise the reliability and latency bar for the systems you own.
- Review designs and mentor engineers across the team.
Skills
GoPostgreSQLReactAWSPythonPyTorchRustgRPCTerraform
What Agraph knows about OpenAI
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Employees
3.4K
+19% 90d
Open roles
388
+28% 30d
Remote share
12%
Activity score
89
0–100
Compensation
Research Engineer pay at OpenAI up 20% year over year
Median posted compensation for research engineer roles moved from about $358K to $428K across 210 observed postings and reports.
Research Engineer median$428K+20%/ 12 months
Pay moving this fast usually signals a supply shortage rather than a general raise.
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