Software Engineer, Ads Manager

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Seattle

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design, build, and scale Ads Manager, the core UI platform enabling advertisers to create, manage, measure, and optimize ad campaigns across OpenAI’s monetization ecosystem.
• Develop advertiser-facing APIs and tools for programmatic campaign creation, targeting, delivery, measurement, and optimization, serving both small/mid-sized advertisers and enterprise clients.
• Build conversion APIs, pixels, insights, and measurement tooling to help advertisers understand and improve campaign performance with accuracy and transparency.
• Create intuitive self-serve workflows that empower small and mid-sized advertisers to launch and optimize campaigns independently with clarity and confidence.
• Architect enterprise-grade integrations for large advertisers, agencies, and third-party ad-tech platforms managing campaigns through their own systems.
• Design and implement distributed systems with strong guarantees for reliability, usability, privacy, performance, and policy compliance across all advertiser-facing products.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Research, and Go-To-Market teams to translate advertiser needs into technically robust, user-centered solutions.
• Drive 0→1 product development through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment in a greenfield environment with no legacy constraints.
• Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap definition for OpenAI’s advertiser platform, proposing new directions and architectural improvements.
• Maintain high engineering rigor through comprehensive testing, documentation, observability, and operational best practices.
• Uphold OpenAI’s highest standards for safety, privacy, fairness, and policy alignment in all systems built for advertisers and partners.
• Work across the full technical stack, from frontend UIs built with TypeScript and React to backend services powered by Python and FastAPI.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure advertiser experiences align with OpenAI’s mission of responsible, user-first monetization.
• Build systems that balance scalability with rigorous privacy and safety controls, ensuring advertiser tools do not compromise user trust or data integrity.
• Operate in a fast-paced, ambiguity-rich environment where systems, architecture, and user experiences are defined from scratch.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building high-scale consumer, enterprise, marketplace, or ads-related systems.
• Proven track record of architecting and delivering complex distributed systems, APIs, or advertiser-facing platforms.
• Experience building in Python / FastAPI and TypeScript / React.
• Experience with ads managers, campaign management systems, advertiser APIs, conversion APIs, pixels, measurement systems, marketplaces, or enterprise ad-tech integrations.
• Comfort navigating ambiguous product spaces and contributing to long-term technical roadmaps.
• Strong product intuition and ability to translate advertiser needs into scalable, reliable product experiences.

🏖️ Benefits

• Relocation assistance provided for new employees.
• Opportunity to work on foundational, 0→1 monetization systems at the forefront of AI innovation.
• Collaborative environment partnering with Product, Design, Research, and Go-To-Market teams.
• High engineering rigor supported through testing, documentation, observability, and operational best practices.
• Mission-driven work focused on privacy-preserving, safe, and user-first monetization.
• Inclusive workplace culture aligned with OpenAI’s commitment to equal opportunity and diversity.

Skills & Technologies

Python

TypeScript

React

FastAPI

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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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