Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience
OpenAI · New York City
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labremote$266k–$385k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build and scale the API Playground, docs, and onboarding flows.
- Turn new model capabilities into clear, usable developer experiences.
- Improve systems that publish SDKs, API references, and examples.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A product-minded engineer who loves developer tools and cares deeply about craft, empathy, and reliability. You thrive turning ambiguous problems into simple experiences in fast-moving teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in product-driven 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 turning ambiguous developer problems into simple, high-quality experiences
- Experience with documentation systems, SDKs, API design, or developer tools is a strong plus
- Comfort working across product, design, engineering, research, and developer feedback loops
- Care for reliability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability in production systems
- Interest in AI and developer platforms; direct ML experience helpful but not required
- Ability to thrive in fast-moving environment with loosely defined problems
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