Software Engineer Internship/Co-op (Fall 2025), Applied Engineering
Software Engineer Internship/Co-op (Fall 2025), Applied Engineering
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About the Team
The Applied Engineering team works across research engineering product and design to bring OpenAIs technology to the world. We seek to learn from deployment and broadly distribute the benefits of AI while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. We aim to make our innovative tools globally accessible transcending geographic economic or platform barriers. Our commitment is to facilitate the use of AI to enhance lives fostered by rigorous insights into how people use our products.
About the Role
We are looking for Software Engineering Interns (Emerging Talent) to join our Applied Engineering teams. Youll work in a deeply iterative collaborative fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world and ensure its 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 candidates interested in a 12-week paid in-person internship based in our San Francisco or Seattle office during fall 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 Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or 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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information please see OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary confidential and non-public information. In addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and requests can be made via this link.
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At OpenAI we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
