Business Platform Engineer
OpenAI
Summary
Enterprise Platform Engineering builds products and capabilities that improve enterprise workflows, partnering closely with engineering, functional teams, and system owners.
Job description
About the Team
Enterprise Platform Engineering builds products and capabilities that improve enterprise workflows, partnering closely with engineering, functional teams, and system owners.
About the Role
As a Business Platform Engineer, you will translate business problems into reliable software and workflows. You will move between requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, rollout, and operational ownership, using functional expertise to deliver measurable outcomes.
In this role, you will:
- Translate business workflows into requirements, process and data definitions, exception handling, and acceptance criteria.
- Build services, APIs, integrations, data flows, and automation with maintainable code and meaningful tests.
- Own delivery from design and implementation through validation, deployment, support, and continuous improvement.
- Design permissions, approvals, auditability, retries, idempotency, reconciliation, and recovery appropriate to the workflow.
- Partner with business and system owners on prioritization, operational readiness, and adoption.
- Measure reliability, quality, cycle time, and user outcomes; turn successful solutions into reusable capabilities.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have demonstrated experience building and operating software that solves business problems.
- Bring functional understanding of finance, procurement, accounting, or adjacent enterprise workflows, and can learn an unfamiliar domain.
- Can write and debug code and reason about APIs, integrations, data models, and system boundaries.
- Understand controls, failure modes, testing, and reliable production operation.
- Can structure ambiguous problems and turn them into practical increments with clear tradeoffs.
- Communicate clearly across engineering and business teams and follow through on delivery and adoption.
Preferred signals
- Experience turning specialist knowledge into reusable tools, data products, or workflow capabilities.
- Practical AI-assisted workflow experience with evaluation, human review, monitoring, and controlled actions.
- Evidence of enabling others to adopt a capability and measuring the resulting improvement.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience building and operating software that solves business problems
- Functional understanding of finance, procurement, accounting, or adjacent enterprise workflows
- Ability to write and debug code
- Reason about APIs, integrations, data models, and system boundaries
- Understand controls, failure modes, testing, and reliable production operation
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems into practical increments with clear tradeoffs
- Clear communication across engineering and business teams
- Follow through on delivery and adoption
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Health Savings Accounts
- Health FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter Expenses
- 401(k) Matching
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Medical Leave
- Paid Caregiver Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Paid Company Holidays
- Paid Sick Time
- Mental Health Support
- Life Insurance
- Disability Coverage
- Learning & Development Stipend
- Daily Meals
- Meal Delivery Credits
- Relocation Support
- Charitable Donation Matching
- Wellness Stipends
- Equity
Company overview
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory and company based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman, OpenAI initially operated as a non-profit research organization before transitioning to a capped-profit model. The company's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. OpenAI has developed groundbreaking AI technologies including GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) models, DALL-E for image generation, and Codex for programming assistance. Their most notable product, ChatGPT, has revolutionized human-AI interaction and brought large language models to mainstream audiences. OpenAI conducts cutting-edge research in machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and reinforcement learning, while also developing practical AI applications that are transforming industries worldwide.