Used Tools & Technologies
Machine LearningRequired Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Go @ 3
TypeScript @ 6
Python @ 5
React @ 6
Rust @ 5
API @ 3
AI @ 3
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
About the team
OpenAI’s API Platform organization builds the products and infrastructure that help first-party and third-party developers build with OpenAI models. The API Experience team focuses on the end-to-end developer experience for the OpenAI API and owns surfaces developers touch every day: docs, SDKs, the Playground, examples, onboarding flows, and systems that help developers go from first request to production deployment quickly and confidently.
Role summary
You will help define and build the next generation of OpenAI’s developer experience. The role works across frontend product surfaces, backend systems, SDK and documentation pipelines, and API workflows that serve millions of developers and companies. You will partner closely with product, design, research, API engineering, and developer-facing teams to make complex AI capabilities simple to understand, easy to test, and safe to launch in real-world applications. This is a highly cross-functional role with ownership over developer-facing experiences and systems; the team will be NYC-based and the position is hybrid.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale developer-facing products including the OpenAI API Playground, documentation experiences, onboarding flows, examples, and API workflow tools.
- Own full stack projects end to end: product definition, UX collaboration, backend implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration.
- Improve systems that generate, maintain, and publish SDKs, API references, docs, guides, and developer examples.
- Partner with API, research, design, and infrastructure teams to bring new model capabilities and API primitives to developers clearly and useably.
- Use developer feedback, product analytics, and customer insight to identify friction and improve the API experience.
- Help set technical and product direction for a new NYC-based team with broad ownership over OpenAI’s developer experience.
Requirements / Your background might look something like
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) on product-driven engineering teams.
- Strong experience with TypeScript, React, and modern web application development.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar.
- Experience designing, building, and operating production APIs, services, databases, or developer tooling.
- Strong product judgment and a track record of turning ambiguous developer problems into simple, high-quality product experiences.
- Experience with documentation systems, SDKs, API design, developer tools, or technical content pipelines is a strong plus.
- Comfortable working across product, design, engineering, research, and external developer feedback loops.
- Care for reliability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability in production systems.
- Interest in AI and developer platforms; direct ML experience is helpful but not required.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment with loosely defined problems and competing priorities.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company emphasizes safety, diverse perspectives, and inclusion. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
Compensation & benefits
- Base pay range listed: $293K–$385K (base pay may vary depending on market location, skills, and experience). Total compensation also includes equity and potential performance-related bonus(es).
- Benefits mentioned: medical, dental, and vision insurance (with employer HSA contributions), pre-tax FSAs, 401(k) with employer match, paid parental and caregiver leave, flexible PTO (exempt) / up to 15 days (non-exempt), paid company holidays and office closures, mental health and wellness support, basic life and disability coverage, annual learning and development stipend, daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits (as eligible), relocation support for eligible employees, and additional taxable fringe benefits (charitable matching, wellness stipends).