Frontend Software Engineer, Codex App
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 1H AGO
Frontier labonsite$230k–$385k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build polished desktop app and IDE extension for AI coding teammate.
- Define future interfaces for delegation, task timelines, and agent review.
- Shape how users stay oriented across long-running multi-step work.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A craft-driven frontend engineer who loves design engineering and sweating interaction details. You thrive in ambiguity, think in end-to-end workflows, and care about making AI feel like a true teammate.
Requirements
- Strong experience with modern frontend stacks (React, TypeScript) and a high bar for UI craft
- Love design engineering: sweating details while keeping velocity
- Built desktop-caliber product experiences (Electron or similar) with focus on performance and responsiveness
- Enjoy exploring ambiguous problems and iterating rapidly with design and product
- Think in end-to-end workflows, not isolated screens
- Experience with developer tools or IDE extensions (nice-to-have)
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets