OpenAI
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Software Engineer, Localization

Location
San Francisco, CA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • localization infrastructure
  • internationalization libraries
  • translation pipelines
  • web and mobile app delivery

Also useful

  • open-source components

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Internationalization team, you will build the systems that power localization and international product launches at OpenAI. You’ll work on the platform that manages product content, translation workflows, and localization infrastructure across our products.

This role sits at the intersection of AI systems, developer platforms, and product infrastructure.

In This Role, You Will

  • Build and scale OpenAI’s localization, content, and experimentation platform used across OpenAI product teams, including open-source components:
  • Develop AI-powered translation pipelines combined with human-in-the-loop review workflows.
  • Design systems that reliably deliver localized product content across web and mobile apps.
  • Build tools that enable linguists and localization teams to review and improve translations.
  • Develop developer tooling that simplifies localization and internationalization workflows.
  • Build and maintain internationalization libraries used across OpenAI products:
  • Design systems that correctly handle numbers, currencies, dates, and pluralization across locales.
  • Improve support for multilingual interfaces and right-to-left languages.
  • Partner with product teams to improve the international readiness of new features.

You Might Thrive in This Role If You

  • Have strong software engineering experience building backend or full-stack systems.
  • Have familiarity with Java, React, MySQL, and cloud infrastructure patterns such as object storage, containerized services, and Kubernetes.
  • Enjoy building platforms and internal tools used by many teams.
  • Have experience with or appreciation for open-source software and developer tooling.
  • Are interested in combining AI systems with human workflows.
  • Care about product quality and global user experience.
  • Appreciate cultural and linguistic differences across regions; multilingual proficiency is a plus.

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. A majority of our users interact with our products in languages other than English, and our products must work seamlessly across languages, regions, and cultures.

The Internationalization team builds the infrastructure that enables OpenAI products to ship globally by default. We develop the systems that power localization, international product launches, and high-quality global user experiences across all OpenAI products.

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.

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Equal opportunity and legal notices

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.

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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link

Read the original posting

From OpenAI's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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