Software Engineer, Full-Stack — Developer Experience

Software Engineer Full-Stack Developer Experience

Were building the next generation of OpenAIs internal developer experience whether theyre working human-only agent-only or fully hybrid. As AI changes how software gets written reviewed tested and shipped we are reimagining the best practices in the software development lifecycle and integrating our dev infra and tooling into a seamless yet powerful offering.

This role lives at the intersection of product design engineering craft and real-world scale. Were looking for a product-minded engineer who can own end-to-end experiences across multiple UI/UX surfaces across our internal tooling ecosystem with a strong taste for interaction design and a keen eye for developers needs.

In this role you will:

• Own major product areas end-to-end: problem discovery UX iteration technical design implementation rollout and ongoing improvements.

• Partner closely with engineers and internal stakeholders to understand pain points and translate them into simple effective UI/UX for core developer workflows.

• Integrate and iterate on AI-empowered DevEx that balances capability vs simplicity/control.

• Set a high bar for performance reliability and usability providing a world-class product experience for every engineer at OpenAI.

You might thrive in this role if you

• Have 5 years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) building user-facing products.

• Are a strong frontend engineer or a full-stack engineer with deep UI instincts and modern web fundamentals (TypeScript React component design state management).

• Have built products in zero-to-one environments or owned a product surface with ambiguous requirements and high urgency.

• Have experience building internal tools enterprise tools or workflow-heavy products for technical 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.

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