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Software Engineer, ChatGPT Shopping

San Francisco (Remote)$230k–$385kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join OpenAI's ChatGPT Lifestyle team as a full-stack product engineer building next-generation AI consumer experiences. You'll design and ship end-to-end product features spanning frontend, backend, and multimodal AI workflows, working closely with researchers, designers, and product managers to create intuitive interfaces that bring advanced AI capabilities to millions of users.

What you'll do

  • Design and build end-to-end product experiences across web services, APIs, and modern frontend applications
  • Partner with product, design, and research teams to rapidly prototype and launch AI-native experiences
  • Develop scalable backend systems powering personalized, real-time product features
  • Build intuitive, performant interfaces integrating text, images, and interactive components
  • Iterate quickly using user feedback, experimentation, and product metrics
  • Help define engineering standards and technical direction for the product area

What they're looking for

  • Full-stack development (frontend and backend)
  • React, TypeScript, Next.js or similar modern frontend frameworks
  • Backend services in Python, Go, Node.js, Rust, or comparable languages
  • Distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
  • Product sense and UX judgment
  • AI/ML product experience (personalization, recommendations, multimodal systems)
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Rapid prototyping and iteration

Benefits

  • Work on frontier AI products used by millions of people
  • Collaborate with world-class researchers, engineers, and designers
  • Build novel interaction paradigms and consumer experiences
  • Fast-moving environment with frequent shipping and iteration
  • San Francisco location
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OpenAI

OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a consumer product you've built end-to-end—what was your role and what made it successful?
  • How do you balance moving quickly with maintaining engineering quality in a fast-shipping environment?