OpenAI

Full-Stack Software Engineer, Emerging Products

OpenAI • $150K — $180K *
San Francisco, CA 94112In-Person
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience as a software engineer in product-focused roles
  • Strong frontend development skills and proficiency in backend technologies
  • Experience in building and shipping full-stack applications
  • Ability to turn ambiguous ideas into testable product concepts using data
  • Demonstrated autonomy in fast-paced, high-ownership environments

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop product experiments across the entire technology stack
  • Translate ambiguous user needs into measurable product concepts
  • Direct technical aspects of 0-to-1 projects from prototype to scalable products
  • Collaborate with design, product, and engineering teams to launch successful projects
  • Evaluate and refine product concepts based on research and metrics

Benefits

  • Work in a dynamic and innovative environment
  • Opportunity to work on groundbreaking product concepts
  • Collaborative culture with cross-functional teams
  • Autonomy and ownership in project direction
  • Based in a vibrant tech hub in San Francisco
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for a senior, product-minded software engineer to own ambiguous 0-to-1 work from idea through prototype, validation, and handoff. This is a full-stack role with a strong frontend and product emphasis: you will build the interfaces and supporting backend systems needed to test new experiences quickly, while making sound architectural choices that enable successful concepts to scale. This role is based in our Mission Bay office in San Francisco.

In this role, you will:
  • Build and ship high-quality, product experiments across the full stack.
  • Turn ambiguous user needs and emerging technical capabilities into testable product concepts, using research and metrics to guide iteration.
  • Own technical direction for 0-to-1 projects, balancing speed, reliability, and a clear path from prototype to scalable product.
  • Partner closely with design, product, research, and engineering teams to dogfood, evaluate, launch, and transition successful experiments.

You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have a track record of building and shipping end-to-end products in fast-moving, startup, founder-led, growth, or other high-ownership environments.
  • Bring strong frontend engineering skills and enough backend and systems depth to make sound full-stack architectural decisions.
  • Pair product intuition with evidence, using user research and product data to identify opportunities and make pragmatic tradeoffs.
  • Operate with a high degree of autonomy, move quickly through ambiguity, and create lightweight structure where little exists.
  • Communicate clearly across disciplines and are willing to learn whatever is needed to move a product forward.


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.
Learn more about OpenAI
Size
100 employees
Industry
Information Technology
Founded
2015
* Ladders Estimates

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