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OpenAI · 8 hours ago

Full Stack Engineer, Health AI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking full stack software engineers to help build and scale products used by consumers and care providers globally, focusing on improving health outcomes through innovative AI solutions.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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Responsibilities

Design and build scalable fullstack systems for consumer and enterprise health
Own end-to-end feature development—from early design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
Build and maintain data pipelines and services that meet strict privacy, security, and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA)
Collaborate closely with researchers and safety teams to integrate reliability, evaluation, and guardrails into production systems
Debug, optimize, and harden systems to support high availability, performance, and global scale
Take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive them to practical, high-quality solutions

Qualification

Full stack developmentData pipelinesCompliance (HIPAA)Production-quality codeDistributed systemsEntrepreneurial driveHealth-related productsCollaborationProblem-solvingGoal-oriented

Required

5+ years of experience writing maintainable, production-quality code
Strong engineering skills with a focus on building durable, well-designed systems
Ability to operate with high agency—owning problems end-to-end with minimal supervision
Experience working in fast-moving, cross-functional teams with engineers, product managers, designers, and researchers
Comfortable doing unglamorous but essential work when it is needed for the mission (e.g., compliance, data plumbing, reliability)
Goal-oriented rather than tool-oriented, choosing what works over what is fashionable
Thoughtful about the societal impact of AI and aligned with OpenAI's mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity

Preferred

Strong product engineering instincts—able to take a rough spec and ship a polished solution
Entrepreneurial drive or previous experience as a founder
Prior experience with health-related products
High-quality public code (e.g., GitHub projects, open-source contributions)
Experience building compliant or regulated products (healthcare, enterprise, finance, or similar)
Experience with distributed systems, backend architecture, or large-scale data pipelines

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.

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
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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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Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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