# Developer Experience Engineer

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Developer Relations
**Salary:** $198k – $335k/yr
**Skills:** Full-Stack, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python, AI, LLMs, APIs, Codex, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2025-06-18

> Build demos, sample apps, and technical content to empower developers using OpenAI's Codex, APIs, and frontier AI models. Requires full-stack engineering expertise with AI/LLM experience and passion for developer advocacy.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop demos and sample applications that showcase best practices for building with Codex, frontier models, multimodal capabilities, and agents.
- Create high-quality technical content—including tutorials, blog posts, videos, and code samples—to educate and inspire the developer community about our models, APIs, and Codex.
- Actively engage with and foster a vibrant local and global developer ecosystem around OpenAI’s platform and products.
- Represent OpenAI at developer events and online, serving as a knowledgeable and approachable advocate for developers.
- Gather and synthesize developer feedback to inform and improve our product roadmap.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and marketing teams to drive adoption and success across OpenAI’s developer products, including Codex and our APIs.
- Contribute directly to improving and refining OpenAI’s developer products, interfaces, and surfaces.
- Own challenges end-to-end, proactively closing gaps and developing new skills to solve complex problems.

## Requirements
- Passionate about crafting exceptional developer experiences and creating inspirational technical content and projects.
- Robust **full-stack engineering** background with demonstrated experience building innovative applications using **AI** and **large language models (LLMs)**.
- Strong user empathy and care deeply about delivering experiences developers truly appreciate.
- Proven track record of successfully creating engaging technical content, compelling demos, or innovative developer tooling that accelerates technology adoption.
- Find joy in coding, continuously shipping high-quality, impactful software.
- Excel in dynamic environments characterized by rapidly evolving priorities, ambiguity, and competing deadlines.
- Exceptional collaborator who thrives working cross-functionally and enjoys partnering with diverse teams.
- Maintain a genuine commitment to AI ethics and safety, strongly aligning with OpenAI's responsible AI development principles.

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