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Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience

OpenAI · New York City

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labremote$266k–$385k
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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
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