Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack — Dots
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will build and launch features across web interfaces, APIs, backend services, and data models for personal AI agents. You will create workflows for task creation, progress updates, and feedback, prototype with research, product, and design partners, improve performance and reliability, and own projects from exploration through launch.
Requirements
- Significant experience building and shipping products across frontend and backend systems
- Ability to move between user interfaces, service design, APIs, and data modeling
- Strong product instincts
- Experience taking ambiguous ideas to production
- Understanding of asynchronous workflows, state, and consistency
- Experience owning complex engineering projects
Responsibilities
- Build and launch features across web interfaces, APIs, backend services, and data models
- Create workflows for task creation, progress updates, agent feedback, and results
- Translate emerging model capabilities into product prototypes
- Design interfaces between product surfaces and agent execution systems
- Improve performance and reliability across the stack
- Own projects from exploration through launch and iteration
- Help establish technical direction, testing practices, and observability
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
