Software Engineer salary in United States

The ChatGPT Learning team creates the next generation of learning experiences within ChatGPT. Millions of people use ChatGPT each week to explore concepts, practice skills, and work through challenges, making learning one of the platform’s largest consumer use cases.

• Pays more than 100% of Software Engineer jobs
• 10+ years experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Relocation

The Connector Ecosystem team builds the platform and product experiences that let people extend ChatGPT and Codex. We work on plugins, skills, connectors, interactive apps, and open standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

• Pays more than 100% of Software Engineer jobs
• 10+ years experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Relocation

This team builds and operates the systems that enable OpenAI researchers to run reliable, scalable, and efficient research workflows.

• Pays more than 98% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products.

• Pays more than 100% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

Our Inference team brings OpenAI’s most capable research and technology to the world through our products. We empower consumers, enterprises and developers alike to use and access our state-of-the-art AI models, allowing them to do things that they’ve never been able to before.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity

The Platform Systems team at OpenAI operates at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and large-scale distributed systems. We build the engineering and research infrastructure required to train OpenAI’s flagship models on some of the world’s largest, custom-built supercomputers.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

The Workload Networking team is responsible for the collective communication stack used in our largest training jobs.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Relocation

Project leads at Mercor run and scale distinct data production businesses, each hiring and upskilling thousands of experts, while managing throughput and quality.

• Pays more than 100% of Senior Software Engineer jobs
• 5+ years experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Health insurance
• Wellness
• Relocation

Some of the most valuable work on Mercor's platform is code —the tasks, problems, and solutions that train and evaluate the world's frontier coding models.

• Pays more than 97% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Health insurance
• Relocation

The Applied AI org builds the systems that turn human expertise into training data for frontier models, task pipelines, expert workflows, evaluation infrastructure, and the services that tie them together.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 2–5 years experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Health insurance
• Wellness
• Relocation

The Applied AI org builds the systems that turn human expertise into training data for frontier models, task pipelines, expert workflows, evaluation infrastructure, and the services that tie them together.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 2–5 years experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Health insurance
• Wellness
• Relocation

We are looking for a Senior Staff or Principal Software Engineer who has played a significant role in removing the driver from an autonomous vehicle operating on freeways, and who can help Zoox navigate that same journey.

• Pays more than 98% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

Compute Foundations builds the software that manages OpenAI’s GPU compute infrastructure across sites, data centers, and infrastructure providers, supporting model training and inference.

• Pays more than 96% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

Frontier Systems Foundations, part of Compute Foundations at OpenAI, builds the systems software foundation that turns new compute infrastructure into reliable, usable capacity for frontier model training.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

We oversee large-scale systems that span data centers, GPUs, networking, and more, ensuring high availability, performance, and efficiency. Our work enables OpenAI’s models to operate seamlessly at scale, supporting both internal research and external products like ChatGPT.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus

As OpenAI continues to grow, we are looking for experienced, problem-solving engineers to ensure our systems scale. Our success depends on our ability to quickly iterate on products while also ensuring that they are performant and reliable.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Relocation

Cloud Infrastructure builds the shared platforms behind ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. We work across engineering and product teams to make infrastructure reliable, secure and easier to use as OpenAI grows.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Relocation

As an engineer within Fleet infrastructure, you will design, write, deploy, and operate infrastructure systems for model deployment and training on one of the world’s largest GPU fleet.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Relocation

The Engineering Acceleration Delivery / Continuous Deployment team builds and operates the systems that safely ship OpenAI’s infrastructure and product code to production.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity

The Engineering Acceleration team designs, builds and maintains the foundational systems that engineers use to build ChatGPT and the API.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 5+ years experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Relocation

The Plugin Ecosystem team builds the platform and product experiences that let people extend ChatGPT and Codex. We work on plugins, skills, connectors, interactive apps, and open standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

• Pays more than 92% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Relocation

The Plugin Developer Platform team builds the APIs, SDKs, and tools that let people extend ChatGPT and Codex. We work on plugins, connectors, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and interactive apps.

• Pays more than 92% of Software Engineer jobs
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Relocation

The Engineering Acceleration team builds and operates the foundational systems that engineers use to build, test, and ship ChatGPT, the API, and OpenAI's infrastructure.

• Pays more than 92% of Software Engineer jobs
• 5+ years experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity

Every new model, product, and channel brings problems no one predicted. We want to catch each issue as early as possible, get customers unblocked fast, and fix the root cause. The best experience is one where a customer never has to ask for help.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

Claude Design lets anyone collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work: interactive prototypes, product mockups, slides, and animations.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Visa sponsorship
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

Bringing Claude to scientists and engineers is a big part of building toward that future.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Visa sponsorship
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

Platform Intelligence turns each new Claude model's abilities into API features that developers can build on. Our goal is to make the full intelligence of each model available through the API.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

A connected Claude is the difference between a general-purpose chatbot and a real coworker.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

Platform Safety builds the infrastructure that lets Anthropic bring its most capable models to more people, safely and securely. Our systems decide both who can access our most advanced models, and what capabilities they can access, wherever Claude is available.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

Enterprise is central to Anthropic's mission. The organizations that could benefit most from Claude often have the most demanding needs, with rigorous requirements around end-user experience, procurement, security, and permissions.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

As of May 2026, Claude authored more than 80% of the code we merge . In September 2026, we merged more than 30,000 changes per day . Writing a change is fast now, and the hard part is knowing what is correct and safe to ship.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

Claude Science is a big part of building toward that future.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

The Auth & Identity team builds the authentication, authorization, and identity platform that underpins every Anthropic product: the API, Claude Code, Claude.ai, and our Enterprise offerings.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Visa sponsorship
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

The Platform Portability team owns the abstractions, tooling, and deployment infrastructure that make this possible without every engineering and research team needing to become experts in different clouds.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Visa sponsorship
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

We are looking for experienced backend and distributed systems engineers to join the Agentic Systems team within our Platform organization. Agentic Systems builds Claude Managed Agents: the hosted platform for building, running, and scaling production agents on Claude.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Visa sponsorship
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

The Claude Platform is growing rapidly and serves developers and enterprises at scale. Reaching the next tier of enterprise customers requires transforming how and where we deploy it, as well as the set of features we support out of the box.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Visa sponsorship
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

We build and run the secure execution environment behind Claude's agentic capabilities. When Claude writes and runs code, browses the web, or uses a computer, that happens on infrastructure our team owns. We work at the intersection of systems engineering and security.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Visa sponsorship
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

We focus on organizational context and workflows (plugins, skills, connectors, webhook-triggered processes / agents). In other words, we focus on products that form the connective tissue that lets Claude operate across an organization.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

The systems we build determine how quickly we can train new models, how reliably we can run safety experiments, and how effectively we can scale Claude to millions of users — demonstrating that safe, reliable infrastructure and frontier capabilities can go hand in hand.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Visa sponsorship
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave

Anthropic is seeking talented and experienced Staff+ Software Engineers to join Developer Acceleration within the Developer Productivity organization.

• Pays more than 99% of Software Engineer jobs
• 3+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Visa sponsorship
• Apply on company site

• Benefits
• Equity
• Bonus
• Commission
• Parental leave