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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Full Stack Software Engineer

Build end-to-end AI-powered developer tools and workflows spanning frontend, backend, agents, and cloud infrastructure. Own complete product experiences from design through production for Codex IDE and terminal interfaces.

255k – 405k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build end-to-end product experiences spanning frontend applications, backend services, agent workflows, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling
  • Design AI-powered workflows that generalize across software engineering teams, languages, codebases, and development practices
  • Discover and implement novel ways to apply AI to eliminate friction throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Partner closely with product, design, and research to translate insights into shipped product improvements
  • Work directly with users (OpenAI developers, open-source contributors, startups, enterprises) to understand pain points and validate solutions
  • Improve reliability, observability, scalability, and performance of systems and workflows

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems
  • Experience with TypeScript, Rust, or similar systems/application programming languages
  • Deep familiarity with modern software development tools, workflows, and engineering practices
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools and intuition for their strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities
  • Desire to own products and features end-to-end from conception through launch and iteration
  • Strong product judgment and bias toward learning from real user feedback
  • Creativity in reframing problems, challenging assumptions, and inventing new workflows

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience building developer tools
  • Deep thinking about how software gets built
  • Excitement about redefining workflows in the age of AI

Skills

TypeScriptRustFrontend DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentCloud InfrastructureAi Agent WorkflowsPrompt EngineeringDeveloper ToolingObservabilityScalability

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