Principal Software Engineer, Productivity is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $459K - $536K. Posted on Oct 22, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re looking for a product-minded Principal Software Engineer to set technical direction, build the systems behind plugins, and improve how models use them. Depending on your focus, you may scale generalist infrastructure and identity-related integrations across products, improve plugin quality at the intersection of backend engineering and applied AI, or work on the product experience itself to drive plugin usage…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
Hiring at OpenAI
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