OpenAI

Full Stack Software Engineer, Product Explorations

OpenAI$140K — $170K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in full stack product development
  • Proven track record of building and shipping product experiences
  • Strong intuition for product and user needs
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced, iterative environments
  • Exceptional collaboration skills across multidisciplinary teams
  • High degree of autonomy and ownership in ambiguous work settings

Responsibilities

  • Identify and pursue high-leverage product and technical opportunities
  • Rapidly move from idea generation to prototyping and validation
  • Develop full stack product experiences leveraging model capabilities
  • Collaborate closely with research, applied, and engineering teams
  • Utilize user feedback and experimentation to determine scalable ideas
  • Drive team alignment and foster a culture of speed and curiosity

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance for new employees
  • Opportunities for career growth within a high-impact team
  • Work at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and user engagement
  • Autonomous role with significant influence over product direction
Full Job Description
About the Team

The Product Explorations team is a small, high-ownership product exploration group focused on turning new model capabilities into impactful user experiences.

We operate across Applied and Research, working closely with product, engineering, design, and research partners to identify promising opportunities, prototype quickly, validate ideas, and determine which efforts should scale into larger product investments.

Our objective is broad: discover and build experiences that can meaningfully improve user engagement, product impact, and revenue across OpenAI's products. We move quickly, follow strong product signals, and take ideas from early exploration to meaningful user impact.

About the Role

We are looking for product-minded full stack engineers to join the Product Explorations team and drive high-impact, net-new product explorations.

In this role, you will independently identify promising opportunities, move quickly from idea to prototype, and work across teams to validate and launch new experiences. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, use strong product intuition, and make thoughtful decisions in ambiguous environments.

You may work on a new ChatGPT experience one week, explore a new model capability the next, and partner with Research or Applied teams to turn the strongest ideas into scalable products. This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys building from scratch, iterating quickly, and working on projects where the path forward is not always obvious.

In this role, you will:
  • Identify and pursue high-leverage product and technical opportunities across OpenAI's products
  • Move quickly from idea to prototype, validation, launch, and iteration
  • Build full stack product experiences that unlock value from new model capabilities
  • Work closely with Research, Applied, product, design, data science, and engineering partners
  • Use user feedback, product signals, and experimentation to determine which ideas should scale
  • Drive alignment across teams and helping shape a culture of speed, ownership, curiosity, and thoughtful experimentation


You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have experience building and shipping full stack product experiences, from early prototypes through production
  • Thrive in early-stage, highly iterative environments and can move quickly from idea to execution with limited structure
  • Bring strong product intuition and an ability to identify what matters most for users and the business
  • Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across engineering, product, design, and research
  • Bring a high degree of autonomy, agency, and ownership in ambiguous environments
  • Want to work at the intersection of model capabilities, product development, and user impact


Location:
  • This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

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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Size
100 employees
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Founded
2015

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