About The Team
The Applied team at OpenAI works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world. We aim to learn from deployment and broadly distribute the benefits of AI, ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Our commitment is to make our innovative tools globally accessible, transcending geographic, economic, or platform barriers.
About The Role
We are seeking Software Engineering interns (Emerging Talent) to join our Applied Engineering teams. You will work in a deeply iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, ensuring it’s delivered with safety and reliability in mind. We value engineers who are self-starters, care deeply about the end user experience, and take pride in building products to solve customer needs.
OpenAI is currently recruiting for candidates interested in a 12-week, paid, in-person internship based in our San Francisco office during Summer 2025.
In This Role, You Will:
- Build new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features and product experiences end-to-end.
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations folks to create cutting-edge products.
- Optimize applications for speed and scale.
- Create a diverse and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome.
Your Background Looks Something Like:
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field.
- Must have at least one semester of schooling left after the completion of your internship.
- Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and some backend languages (we use Python).
- Some experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL.
- Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required).
- Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Paid internship
- Diverse and inclusive culture
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology
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