Full Stack Software Engineer, Health AI

Details

OpenAI’s Health AI team focuses on expanding access to high-quality medical expertise and deploying AI responsibly in high-stakes domains. The team is building AI systems that support patients, clinicians, and health workers while meeting high standards for safety, reliability, and privacy.

The role involves building and scaling products used by consumers and care providers globally, working closely with product, design, and research teams in a fast-moving, high-impact environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable full-stack systems for consumer and enterprise health.
• Own end-to-end feature development, from early design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and services that meet strict privacy, security, and compliance requirements, including HIPAA.
• Collaborate with researchers and safety teams to integrate reliability, evaluation, and guardrails into production systems.
• Debug, optimize, and harden systems to support high availability, performance, and global scale.
• Take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive them to practical, high-quality solutions.

Requirements

• Strong engineering skills and an interest in building durable, well-designed systems.
• 5+ years of experience writing maintainable, production-quality code.
• Ability to operate with high agency and own problems end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work in fast-moving, cross-functional teams with engineers, product managers, designers, and researchers.
• Comfort handling essential work involving compliance, data plumbing, and reliability.
• Goal-oriented approach to selecting tools and technologies.
• Thoughtfulness about the societal impact of AI and alignment with OpenAI’s mission.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong product engineering instincts and the ability to turn a rough specification into a polished solution.
• Entrepreneurial drive or previous experience as a founder.
• Experience with health-related products.
• High-quality public code, such as GitHub projects or open-source contributions.
• Experience building compliant or regulated products in healthcare, enterprise, finance, or similar domains.
• Experience with distributed systems, backend architecture, or large-scale data pipelines.

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 provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave, medical leave, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off and paid company holidays.
• 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 be provided, including charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.