Software Engineer, Full-Stack - job 1 of 3

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 seeking full-stack engineers to own features end-to-end—from backend services to polished user interfaces. You’ll build the systems, APIs, and client experiences that bring OpenAI’s models to life for consumers and developers, combining strong engineering fundamentals with product sensibility.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and web interfaces for products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.

• Implement user-facing features using React/TypeScript while maintaining robust server-side logic in languages such as Python or Go.

• Collaborate with design and product teams to translate AI capabilities into intuitive experiences.

• Optimize applications for speed, scalability, and security.

• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure high availability and performance.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have up to 6 years of full-stack engineering experience delivering production products.

• Are comfortable working across the stack with technologies such as React, TypeScript, Python, Go, and modern cloud infrastructure.

• Enjoy owning projects from concept through deployment and iteration.

• Care about building seamless, reliable experiences for end users.

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.

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