Principal Software Engineer, ChatGPT Education and Learning is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $459K - $536K. Posted on Oct 23, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a Principal Software Engineer on the ChatGPT Learning team, you will set technical direction and lead the design and development of products that help millions of people learn with ChatGPT. You’ll remain hands-on across the stack, building polished interfaces and scalable backend services. Working closely with product managers, designers, researchers, and platform teams, you’ll bring new model capabilities into…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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