Software Engineer, Ads Monetization, Revenue Platform

About the Team

The Applied team at OpenAI safely brings cutting-edge technology to the world. We have released widely used products such as ChatGPT, Sora, and the OpenAI API, powering models including GPT-5 and a growing set of multimodal capabilities across text, image, audio, and video. Our team also manages large-scale inference and platform infrastructure that supports these experiences at global scale.

Within Applied Engineering, the Ads Monetization team in Financial Engineering builds the core systems dealing with all the money flows for ChatGPT Ads. These systems are a combination of low-latency, high scale, high reliability, while being built in a financially correct, accurate, auditable, and explainable way. This role sits at the intersection of ads delivery, data engineering, and financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the core monetization systems for ChatGPT Ads.
• Build and operate the core services and pipelines that power ads monetization end-to-end, from event capture and validation through aggregation, pricing, metering, and ultimately producing billable outputs.
• Define and implement the source of truth for ads monetization data, including schemas, data models, and invariants that ensure outputs are consistent, explainable, and auditable.
• Own correctness and reconciliation: align production outputs with downstream invoicing/finance requirements, build controls/monitors, and close gaps through investigations and backfills.
• Develop across the stack to create comprehensive billing integrations for our range of ChatGPT and API users.
• Collaborate closely with a wide array of stakeholders, including the Ads Engineering, Data Science, Product, Finance, and Go-To-Market teams, as well as fellow engineers.

Qualifications

• Possess a minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bring significant experience in developing (and redeveloping) distributed systems to launch new product capabilities and to handle scaling challenges.
• Enjoy engaging with various partners, particularly those outside of engineering.
• Have a keen and innate desire to learn and acquire new skills, coupled with a strong ability to impart that knowledge clearly and succinctly to others.
• Are deeply invested in creating an exceptional user experience, taking pride in crafting products that address customer needs.
• Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines.
• Experience with ads systems is a plus, but not required.

Pay

Compensation Range: $230K - $385K