Software Engineer, ChatGPT Shopping
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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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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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will design and build end-to-end product experiences across web services, APIs and modern frontend applications. You will partner with product, design and research to prototype and launch AI-native experiences, build performant interfaces, develop scalable backend systems for personalized real-time experiences, work with multimodal capabilities, and iterate using user feedback and metrics. You will also help define engineering standards and technical direction.
Requirements
- Significant experience building consumer-facing products end to end
- Comfortable across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product architecture
- Strong systems thinking and attention to detail
- Communicate well across engineering, design, product, and research teams
- Preferred: modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, Next.js)
- Preferred: scalable backend services using Python, Go, Node.js, Rust
- Preferred: distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Design and build end-to-end product experiences across web services, APIs, and modern frontend applications
- Partner with product, design, and research to prototype and launch AI-native experiences
- Build intuitive, performant interfaces for advanced AI capabilities
- Develop scalable backend systems for personalized, real-time product experiences
- Work with multimodal capabilities including text, images, and interactive UI components
- Iterate using user feedback, experimentation, and product metrics
- Help define engineering standards, architecture, and technical direction
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- 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
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends