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OpenAI · 20 hours ago

Full-Stack Software Engineer, Frontier Exploration

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityMid Level
money$255K/yr - $325K/yr

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Full-Stack Software Engineer on the Labs team, you will create innovative ways for people to interact with AI by designing prototypes and exploring new capabilities. Your role involves collaborating with researchers and iterating on ideas based on real-world feedback to shape new products and experiences.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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Responsibilities

Explore emerging capabilities and collaborate with researchers to uncover surprising new behaviors – whether from the model itself or from how people respond – and push their limits through creative experimentation
Design and prototype new interfaces and interaction patterns that rethink how people experience AI, making powerful capabilities feel intuitive, delightful, and inspiring
Bring ideas to life quickly, turning concepts into working demos – and evolving those prototypes into robust, testable experiences ready for real-world feedback
Ship early, learn from real usage, and iterate fast – refining ideas based on how people actually use them
Hand off the most promising prototypes to product teams to scale before moving on to the next frontier

Qualification

Full-stack applicationsPrototypingInterface designCollaboration with researchersIterationRefinementCreative experimentationProduct intuitionCuriosityAdaptability

Required

Have demonstrated experience building and shipping full-stack applications, from intuitive interfaces to reliable backend systems
Build things for fun and care deeply about craft: curiosity drives you, and creating is how you explore ideas
Are energized by ambiguity and excited to turn novel capabilities into tangible, working experiences
Have a refined product taste and intuition for what great interactions should feel like
Care about how ideas work in people's hands and evolve through real use
Value iteration as much as invention; refining is part of the creative process

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Company

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$79B
Key Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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