Job Overview
Location
Seattle
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data Engineer
Date Posted
May 16, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Design, build, and manage data pipelines that seamlessly integrate user event data into the company’s data warehouse to power product development, safety systems, and business decisions.
- • Develop canonical datasets to track core product metrics including user growth, engagement, and revenue across OpenAI’s platforms.
- • Collaborate closely with Infrastructure, Data Science, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Research teams to understand their data requirements and deliver scalable, reliable solutions.
- • Implement robust, fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion and processing that ensure high availability and accuracy under massive scale.
- • Participate in data architecture and engineering decisions, leveraging experience to guide system design, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
- • Ensure all data systems adhere to industry and company standards for security, integrity, and compliance with data governance policies.
- • Optimize and debug Spark code to efficiently process large-scale datasets used for experimentation, analytics, and model training.
- • Utilize distributed processing frameworks such as Hadoop, Flink, and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3) to support high-throughput data workflows.
- • Operate and maintain ETL schedulers including Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect to orchestrate complex data workflows with dependencies and error handling.
- • Work in a hybrid model based in Bellevue, prioritizing in-person collaboration for technical design, iterative development, and cross-functional alignment.
- • Enable researchers behind ChatGPT and other AI models by providing trusted, high-fidelity data pipelines that inform model training and evaluation.
- • Contribute to the experimentation platform that powers statistical rigor and decision-making across OpenAI’s product and safety initiatives.
- • Build systems that are trusted by engineers and researchers to support critical business outcomes including product growth and prevention of harmful user behaviors.
- • Maintain data quality and lineage across the organization to ensure reproducibility and auditability of analytical insights.
- • Translate complex business and research needs into technical data solutions that are scalable, performant, and aligned with OpenAI’s mission of safe and beneficial AI deployment.
🎯 Requirements
- • 3+ years of experience as a data engineer and 8+ years of any software engineering experience (including data engineering)
- • Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used within Data Engineering, such as Python, Scala, or Java
- • Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Hadoop, Flink, and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3)
- • Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar frameworks
- • Solid understanding of Spark and ability to write, debug, and optimize Spark code
- • This role is based in Bellevue with a hybrid work model requiring in-person collaboration for technical design and cross-functional partnership
🏖️ Benefits
- • Compensation range of $293K - $325K USD
- • Hybrid work model based in Bellevue with emphasis on in-person collaboration for technical design and cross-functional partnership
- • Opportunity to collaborate directly with researchers behind ChatGPT and other frontier AI models
- • Work on systems that power experimentation, safety, and decision-making at the scale of OpenAI’s global AI products
Skills & Technologies
Python
Java
Scala
Apache Spark
Senior
Hybrid
$293k-325k
About OpenAI, Inc.
OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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