# Full Stack Software Engineer

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $185k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Frontend Frameworks, Backend Services, APIs, Distributed Systems, Full Stack Development, Experimentation, Performance Optimization, Scalable Systems
**Posted:** 2026-06-09

> Full Stack Engineer building end-to-end image generation and editing experiences in ChatGPT. Owns frontend interfaces and backend services while collaborating with research, product, and design teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and launch end-to-end product experiences for image generation and image editing within ChatGPT.
- Develop highly interactive frontend experiences that make sophisticated AI capabilities feel intuitive, fast, and delightful.
- Build scalable backend services, APIs, and workflows that power image creation, editing, storage, sharing, and retrieval.
- Partner closely with researchers to rapidly prototype and productionize new multimodal capabilities.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, and Engineering teams to identify high-impact opportunities and execute against them.
- Own projects from concept through launch, including technical design, implementation, experimentation, measurement, and iteration.
- Optimize performance across the stack, from frontend responsiveness and rendering to backend latency, reliability, and scalability.
- Design systems that can support millions of users generating and interacting with visual content simultaneously.
- Leverage experimentation and user insights to improve engagement, usability, quality, and product outcomes.
- Contribute to engineering best practices around architecture, testing, observability, developer productivity, and operational excellence.
- Help define the future roadmap for AI-powered creative tools and visual experiences.

## Requirements
- Experience building and shipping production-grade applications across both frontend and backend systems.
- Comfortable working with modern web technologies such as React, TypeScript, and contemporary frontend frameworks.
- Experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Strong product instincts and ability to think deeply about how users interact with technology.
- Highly analytical and comfortable using experimentation, metrics, and user feedback to drive decision-making.
- Ability to thrive in fast-moving environments where priorities evolve quickly.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners including researchers, designers, product managers, and data scientists.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with media platforms, creative tools, image processing, content creation products, or AI-powered applications.

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