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Developer Experience Engineer

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.

198k – 335kSan Francisco, CADeveloper RelationsOnsite
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About the role

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.

Skills

Full-StackJavaScriptReactNode.jsPythonAILLMsAPIsCodexKubernetes

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