Software Engineer, Healthcare
OpenAI · San Francisco
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## About the Team OpenAI’s Healthcare team is working to ensure that advances in AI meaningfully improve health for everyone. We build AI systems that support patients, clinicians, and healthcare organizations—while setting a high standard for deploying AI responsibly in a high-stakes domain. On the Healthcare team, we build products and infrastructure that bring OpenAI capabilities into healthcare organizations and clinical workflows. We serve health systems, insurance companies, and a broad range of healthcare IT companies. ## About the Role We’re looking for **backend and full-stack software engineers** to build the systems behind OpenAI’s healthcare products. You’ll work across backend services, APIs, data systems, integrations, and product surfaces to connect AI with healthcare workflows and enterprise data. You’ll tackle technical challenges around **security, reliability, observability, and scalability** for real-world healthcare environments. This is a product-engineering role where you can move between customer problems and complex system architecture, and you’re comfortable owning ambiguous problems end-to-end. ## Responsibilities - Design and build backend and full-stack systems powering OpenAI’s healthcare products. - Build services, APIs, and data pipelines connecting OpenAI products with healthcare systems and enterprise data. - Develop integrations with electronic health records (EHRs) and other healthcare data sources. - Design systems meeting demanding requirements for privacy, security, permissions, compliance, and data governance. - Own features and systems from early architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration. - Build reliable systems handling complex data flows, partial failures, and evolving integration requirements. - Partner closely with product, research, security, privacy, GTM, and healthcare organizations to translate real-world workflows into scalable products. - Improve reliability, performance, observability, and operational maturity of production healthcare systems. - Own ambiguous technical problems and drive them toward practical, durable solutions. ## You Might Thrive If You - Are a strong backend or full-stack engineer who enjoys building durable production systems. - Have **5+ years** of experience writing maintainable, production-quality software. - Have strong experience with backend services, APIs, data systems, or distributed systems. - Can reason about system architecture, data models, authentication, permissions, and integration boundaries. - Have experience owning production systems at scale (observability, testing, incident response, migrations, rollouts). - Can move between product requirements and technical architecture without losing ownership of either. - Operate with high agency and are comfortable taking ambiguous problems from definition through production. - Enjoy working directly with cross-functional partners and customers to understand complex workflows. - Care deeply about reliability, privacy, security, and correctness. - Are motivated by the opportunity to improve healthcare through AI. ## Nice to Have - Experience building enterprise SaaS products or platforms. - Experience with distributed systems, backend architecture, or large-scale data pipelines. - Experience building integrations with complex third-party systems or APIs. - Experience with authentication, identity, permissions, or enterprise security. - Experience working in regulate
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