OpenAI

Full Stack Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen

OpenAI$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in full stack development.
  • Proficiency in modern web technologies like React and TypeScript.
  • Strong experience in building scalable backend services and APIs.
  • Ability to manage the entire product lifecycle from concept to launch.
  • Analytical mindset with a focus on metrics and user feedback for decision-making.
  • Experience with image processing or AI applications is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Design and launch product experiences for image generation within ChatGPT.
  • Develop intuitive and fast frontend interfaces for AI capabilities.
  • Build scalable backend services and workflows for image handling.
  • Collaborate with researchers to prototype new capabilities swiftly.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to identify high-impact projects.
  • Own the project lifecycle including implementation and iteration.
  • Optimize performance across frontend and backend systems.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI and multimodal technologies.
  • Ability to influence both user experience and technical architecture.
  • Engage in highly visible and impactful projects.
  • Work in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including researchers and designers.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer to join the Image Generation team and help shape the future of AI-powered visual creation.

In this role, you'll own features end-to-end across both frontend and backend systems, building the experiences that enable users to generate, edit, organize, and interact with images inside ChatGPT. You'll work across the entire stack-from highly interactive user interfaces and real-time workflows to backend services, APIs, orchestration systems, and data infrastructure.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy moving fluidly between product development and systems engineering, collaborating closely with design, product, and research teams to rapidly bring new AI capabilities to users. You'll help define entirely new interaction paradigms as multimodal AI continues to evolve.

In this role, you will:
  • Design, build, and launch end-to-end product experiences for image generation and image editing within ChatGPT.
  • Develop highly interactive frontend experiences that make sophisticated AI capabilities feel intuitive, fast, and delightful.
  • Build scalable backend services, APIs, and workflows that power image creation, editing, storage, sharing, and retrieval.
  • Partner closely with researchers to rapidly prototype and productionize new multimodal capabilities.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, and Engineering teams to identify high-impact opportunities and execute against them.
  • Own projects from concept through launch, including technical design, implementation, experimentation, measurement, and iteration.
  • Optimize performance across the stack, from frontend responsiveness and rendering to backend latency, reliability, and scalability.
  • Design systems that can support millions of users generating and interacting with visual content simultaneously.
  • Leverage experimentation and user insights to improve engagement, usability, quality, and product outcomes.
  • Contribute to engineering best practices around architecture, testing, observability, developer productivity, and operational excellence.
  • Help define the future roadmap for AI-powered creative tools and visual experiences.

You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have experience building and shipping production-grade applications across both frontend and backend systems.
  • Are comfortable working with modern web technologies such as React, TypeScript, and contemporary frontend frameworks.
  • Have experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
  • Enjoy owning products end-to-end and can seamlessly move between user experience challenges and infrastructure decisions.
  • Have strong product instincts and enjoy thinking deeply about how users interact with technology.
  • Are highly analytical and comfortable using experimentation, metrics, and user feedback to drive decision-making.
  • Thrive in fast-moving environments where priorities evolve quickly and new opportunities emerge constantly.
  • Enjoy collaborating with cross-functional partners including researchers, designers, product managers, and data scientists.
  • Are excited by multimodal AI and motivated by the opportunity to define entirely new ways for people to create and communicate visually.
  • Have experience with media platforms, creative tools, image processing, content creation products, or AI-powered applications (a plus).

Why this role is unique

Image Generation sits at the center of some of the most exciting advances happening in AI today. As a Full Stack Engineer on the team, you'll have the opportunity to work across the entire product surface, influence both user experience and technical architecture, and help bring cutting-edge multimodal research to hundreds of millions of users. The problems are highly visible, technically challenging, and deeply impactful-spanning product innovation, distributed systems, AI integration, and large-scale user experiences.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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