# Software Engineer, ChatGPT Lifestyle

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $230k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Next.js, Python, Go, Node.js, Rust, Distributed Systems, APIs, Cloud Infrastructure, AI, Machine Learning, Personalization, Multimodal Systems
**Posted:** 2026-07-09

> Build end-to-end multimodal consumer experiences for ChatGPT as a full-stack product engineer, blending frontend, backend, AI workflows, and interactive interfaces. Requires strong consumer product experience, comfort across the stack, and passion for delightful AI-powered user experiences.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and build end-to-end product experiences across web services, APIs, and modern frontend applications.
- Partner closely with product, design, and research to rapidly prototype and launch new AI-native experiences.
- Build intuitive, performant interfaces that make advanced AI capabilities feel simple and delightful.
- Develop scalable backend systems that power personalized, real-time product experiences.
- Work with multimodal capabilities including text, images, and interactive UI components.
- Iterate quickly using user feedback, experimentation, and product metrics.
- Help define engineering standards, architecture, and technical direction for a fast-growing product area.

## Requirements
- Significant experience building consumer-facing products end to end.
- Comfortable moving across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product architecture.
- Care deeply about craft, user experience, and product quality.
- Enjoy ambiguity and are energized by taking ideas from zero to one.
- Think like both an engineer and a product builder.
- Have strong systems thinking while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
- Communicate well across engineering, design, product, and research teams.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Strong experience with modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, Next.js, or similar).
- Experience building scalable backend services using Python, Go, Node.js, Rust, or comparable technologies.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building highly interactive consumer products.
- Background working with AI, machine learning products, search, recommendations, personalization, or multimodal systems is a plus.
- A track record of shipping products quickly while maintaining engineering quality.

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