Software Engineer, Frontend - job 1 of 2

About the Team

OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide. We power products such as ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and emerging AI-native applications. Our teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety, working together to ensure that OpenAI’s technology is delivered with reliability, security, and a world-class user experience.

About the Role

We’re looking for frontend engineers to craft the user interfaces that make advanced AI accessible and intuitive. You’ll partner with design, product, and research teams to build responsive, performant, and secure web applications that bring OpenAI’s models to life.

In this role, you will:

• Build and maintain scalable web applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and related technologies.

• Create reusable UI components and front-end infrastructure to accelerate product development.

• Optimize client performance and ensure accessibility across browsers and devices.

• Work closely with designers to implement intuitive, user-friendly interfaces.

• Contribute to end-to-end product planning and decision-making.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have up to 6 years of professional experience building production web applications.

• Are fluent in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and modern web tooling.

• Care deeply about design fidelity, performance, and accessibility.

• Enjoy iterating quickly to deliver polished, user-focused features.

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.

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