Full Stack Software Engineer, OpenAI Edu

About the team

OpenAIs Education team is building products and experiences that help learners educators and institutions benefit from AI in ways that are rigorous useful and grounded in real learning outcomes.

The work spans both consumer and B2B education with close collaboration across engineering learning science design data and research. This team sits in a highly strategic investment area for OpenAI with strong opportunities to shape how product ideas flow across consumer and institution-facing experiences.

Some of our recent work:

• New tools for understanding AI and learning outcomes

• Education for countries

• Advancements in higher education

• Early product work - Introducing Study Mode

About the role

Were looking for a product-minded Full Stack Engineer to help build OpenAIs education products from the ground up. Youll own end-to-end development across the stack from early concepting and prototyping through production launch and iteration.

This is an opportunity to work on a highly strategic early-stage product area where engineering judgment product sense and customer empathy all matter.

Youll partner closely with leaders across the education org including learning scientists researchers designers and cross-functional partners to turn emerging ideas into durable product experiences for schools universities and other education stakeholders.

In this role you will:

• Build and ship product experiences across the full stack for OpenAIs education offerings

• Own projects end-to-end from ideation and technical design through implementation launch and iteration

• Work closely with learning scientists and researchers to translate learning goals and evidence into product decisions

• Collaborate with design data and cross-functional partners to build thoughtful high-quality user experiences

• Help define the engineering foundation for a growing education pod including patterns systems and technical direction

• Contribute to products that may inform both consumer and B2B education experiences over time

Your background might look something like:

• 5 years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies

• Former founder or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch is a plus

• Proficiency with TypeScript React and other web technologies

• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g. Python Go Rust Typescript or similar) and distributed systems concepts

• Some experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL

• Care deeply about reliability safety and performance in production environments.

• Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)

• Proven ability to thrive in fast-growing product-driven companies by effectively navigating loosely defined tasks and managing competing priorities or deadlines.

• Have experience building interactive educational tools or learning products or are excited to apply your skills in this space

• Have a strong interest in improving access to education and expanding opportunities for learners worldwide

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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