OpenAI

Software Engineer, ChatGPT Shopping

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in full stack product engineering
  • Proficiency in modern frontend technologies like React and TypeScript
  • Experience with scalable backend services using languages like Python or Node.js
  • Exposure to AI, machine learning, and multimodal systems
  • Strong background in building consumer-facing applications
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments and iteratively improve products
  • Excellent communication skills for cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement end-to-end product experiences across web services and APIs
  • Collaborate with product, design, and research teams for rapid prototyping of AI-native experiences
  • Create intuitive and high-performance user interfaces
  • Build scalable backend systems for personalized product experiences
  • Work with various interfaces like text and images alongside interactive components
  • Use user feedback and product metrics for quick iterations
  • Define engineering standards and architectural direction for the product area.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI and interactive technologies
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams
  • Fast-paced work culture rewarding innovation and quick iterations
  • Potential to influence future interactions in consumer products
  • Focus on personal and professional growth within a leading tech company.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for exceptional full stack product engineers who love building polished consumer experiences from the ground up.

You'll work across frontend, backend, AI-powered workflows, and rich interactive interfaces to create new product experiences that blend conversation, visual understanding, personalization, and commerce. You'll collaborate closely with designers, researchers, product managers, and model teams to rapidly prototype, launch, and iterate on experiences used by millions of people.

This is an opportunity to help invent entirely new interaction paradigms-not just build traditional web applications.

In This Role, You Will
  • Design and build end-to-end product experiences across web services, APIs, and modern frontend applications.
  • Partner closely with product, design, and research to rapidly prototype and launch new AI-native experiences.
  • Build intuitive, performant interfaces that make advanced AI capabilities feel simple and delightful.
  • Develop scalable backend systems that power personalized, real-time product experiences.
  • Work with multimodal capabilities including text, images, and interactive UI components.
  • Iterate quickly using user feedback, experimentation, and product metrics.
  • Help define engineering standards, architecture, and technical direction for a fast-growing product area.

You Might Thrive If You
  • Have significant experience building consumer-facing products end to end.
  • Are comfortable moving across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product architecture.
  • Care deeply about craft, user experience, and product quality.
  • Enjoy ambiguity and are energized by taking ideas from zero to one.
  • Think like both an engineer and a product builder.
  • Have strong systems thinking while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
  • Communicate well across engineering, design, product, and research teams.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Strong experience with modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, Next.js, or similar).
  • Experience building scalable backend services using Python, Go, Node.js, Rust, or comparable technologies.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience building highly interactive consumer products.
  • Background working with AI, machine learning products, search, recommendations, personalization, or multimodal systems is a plus.
  • A track record of shipping products quickly while maintaining engineering quality.

What Success Looks Like

Successful engineers on this team combine strong technical execution with excellent product judgment. They move fluidly between prototyping and production systems, collaborate effectively across disciplines, and consistently deliver experiences that feel intuitive, elegant, and magical to users.

They are excited by fast iteration, comfortable making decisions with imperfect information, and motivated by building products that redefine how people use AI every day.

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
Founded
2015

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