Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience

Details

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, including documentation, SDKs, the Playground, examples, onboarding flows, and systems that help developers move from their first request to production deployment.

The role involves working across frontend product surfaces, backend systems, SDK and documentation pipelines, and API workflows serving millions of developers and companies. You will collaborate 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.

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, from product definition and UX collaboration through backend implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration.
• Improve systems that generate, maintain, and publish SDKs, API references, documentation, guides, and developer examples.
• Partner with API, research, design, and infrastructure teams to bring new model capabilities and API primitives to developers in a clear and usable way.
• Use developer feedback, product analytics, and direct customer insight to identify friction and improve the API experience.
• Help set technical and product direction for a new New York City-based team with broad ownership over OpenAI’s developer experience.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in 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.
• Comfort 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 machine learning experience is helpful but not required.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment with loosely defined problems and competing priorities.

Benefits

• Base salary of $293,000–$385,000 per year, plus equity and performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for health and dependent care expenses, as well as commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and paid office closures.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer committed to reasonable accommodations and compliance with applicable employment laws.