Full-Stack Software Engineer, Emerging Products

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About the Team

The Emerging Products team is a lean, high-output product lab group that builds products at the forefront of model capabilities. The team collaborates across research, infrastructure, consumer products, and other company teams.

The team identifies new product opportunities, builds and dogfoods products internally, and launches successful products to users. Data, user research, and analytics inform ideas and decisions about which experiments to iterate, stop, or scale.

About the Role

This is a senior, product-minded software engineering role focused on ambiguous 0-to-1 work, from idea through prototype, validation, and handoff. It is a full-stack position with a strong frontend and product emphasis. The engineer will build interfaces and supporting backend systems to test new experiences quickly while making architectural choices that allow successful concepts to scale.

The role is based in the Mission Bay office in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship high-quality product experiments across the full stack.
• Turn ambiguous user needs and emerging technical capabilities into testable product concepts, using research and metrics to guide iteration.
• Own technical direction for 0-to-1 projects while balancing speed, reliability, and a clear path from prototype to scalable product.
• Partner closely with design, product, research, and engineering teams to dogfood, evaluate, launch, and transition successful experiments.

Requirements

• A track record of building and shipping end-to-end products in fast-moving, startup, founder-led, growth, or other high-ownership environments.
• Strong frontend engineering skills, along with sufficient backend and systems depth to make sound full-stack architectural decisions.
• Product intuition paired with evidence, using user research and product data to identify opportunities and make pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Ability to operate autonomously, move quickly through ambiguity, and create lightweight structure where little exists.
• Clear cross-disciplinary communication and willingness to learn whatever is needed to move a product forward.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of legally protected characteristics.

Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law. OpenAI is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Base salary of $295,000–$445,000, plus equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for health, dependent care, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, company holidays, office closures, and paid sick or safe time as required by law.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.