Support Systems Architect at OpenAI

San Francisco, California, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Technology, AIIndustries

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in building tools for internal teams, especially within a customer support environment
  • Have shipped or maintained tools and automations (dashboards, ETL pipelines, low-code apps) that eliminated manual work and scaled beyond a single team
  • Treat ChatGPT & LLMs as default co-developers, rapidly turning natural-language ideas into working code or queries
  • Deeply enjoy working cross-functionally and are skilled at building relationships with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams
  • Are passionate about customer advocacy and have experience translating customer feedback into strategic product insights
  • Possess a strong bias for automation and a distaste for doing low-complexity to otherwise repetitive work consistently
  • Thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where priorities will shift quickly and iterating on your systems will be required

Responsibilities

  • Build “Day-1 enabled” workflows; role-tailored playbooks, content auto-diffs from source docs, and other workflows that have been taken for granted in typical Support organizations
  • Continuously automate repetitive touchpoints with scripts, agents, and LLM-powered flows; implement governance, observability, evaluation gates, and safe rollback
  • Codify detection (windowing, dedupe, thresholds), on-call handoffs, and post-incident learning loops that protect customer experience and SLAs
  • Prototype and learn quickly—leveraging ChatGPT, Jupyter notebooks, Retool, and other tools—to prove value before hardening with Engineering
  • Stand up data pipelines that capture sentiment, ticket trends, and BPO insights, routing actionable signals back to Product within hours—not weeks
  • Identify risks and challenges during tooling rollouts, proposing solutions that safeguard customer experience and service levels
  • Continuously automate, replacing every repetitive touchpoint with scripts, agents, or LLM-powered flows

Skills

Systems Architecture
Workflow Automation
Data Engineering
Software Engineering
Data Science
Project Management
Incident Detection
Knowledge Management
Prototyping
Cross-functional Collaboration

OpenAI

Develops safe and beneficial AI technologies

About OpenAI

OpenAI develops and deploys artificial intelligence technologies aimed at benefiting humanity. The company creates advanced AI models capable of performing various tasks, such as automating processes and enhancing creativity. OpenAI's products, like Sora, allow users to generate videos from text descriptions, showcasing the versatility of its AI applications. Unlike many competitors, OpenAI operates under a capped profit model, which limits the profits it can make and ensures that excess earnings are redistributed to maximize the social benefits of AI. This commitment to safety and ethical considerations is central to its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence (AGI) serves all of humanity.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2015Year Founded
$18,433.2MTotal Funding
LATE_VCCompany Stage
AI & Machine LearningIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental and vision insurance
Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care
Mental healthcare service
Fertility treatment coverage
401(k) with generous matching
20-week paid parental leave
Life insurance (complimentary)
AD&D insurance (complimentary)
Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)
Optional buy-up life insurance
Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)
Annual learning & development stipend
Regular team happy hours and outings
Daily catered lunch and dinner
Travel to domestic conferences

Risks

Elon Musk's legal battle may pose financial and reputational challenges for OpenAI.
Customizable ChatGPT personas could lead to privacy and ethical concerns.
Competitors like Anthropic raising capital may intensify market competition.

Differentiation

OpenAI's capped profit model prioritizes ethical AI development over unlimited profit.
OpenAI's AI models, like Sora, offer unique video creation from text descriptions.
OpenAI's focus on AGI aims to create AI systems smarter than humans.

Upsides

OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding boosts its AI research and computational capacity.
Customizable ChatGPT personas enhance user engagement and satisfaction.
OpenAI's 'Operator' AI agent could revolutionize workforce automation by 2025.

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