Business Platform Engineer

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. Workplace & Location San Francisco 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. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement . Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form . No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link . OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.