Frontend Engineer, ChatGPT Engineering

OpenAI; Town of Tonawanda (NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI research firm is seeking a Front End Software Engineer to build best-in-class user experiences across ChatGPT. You will work on high-impact UI architecture and performance issues, shipping features that enhance user interaction with AI. Strong experience with modern web frameworks, especially React and TypeScript, is essential. This role encourages collaboration with design and product teams to ensure intuitive, responsive, and delightful user experiences.

Qualifications

• Strong frontend engineering experience with modern web frameworks.
• Attention to performance, accessibility, and UI craft.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments while maintaining quality.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship high-quality product experiences across web surfaces.
• Partner with design and product to create polished, accessible UI.
• Own frontend architecture decisions and improve product reliability.

Skills

Frontend experience with modern web frameworks (e.g., React, TypeScript)

Strong focus on performance and accessibility

Ability to work across the stack

Job description

About The Team

ChatGPT Engineering builds the product surfaces people use every day—bringing new model capabilities to life through fast, polished, and trustworthy user experiences. Frontend engineering sits at the center of that work: partnering closely with design, product, research, and backend teams to ship features that are intuitive, performant, and reliable at global scale.

About The Role

We’re hiring Front End Software Engineers to build best-in-class product experiences across ChatGPT. You’ll work on high-impact user flows, UI architecture, and performance—shipping features that make advanced AI feel simple, responsive, and delightful.

You Might Thrive Here If You

• Have strong frontend experience with modern web frameworks (e.g., React, TypeScript) and building production UI at scale.
• Care deeply about performance, accessibility, and craft—and you sweat the details without losing speed.
• Enjoy working across the stack and partnering tightly with design and product.
• Are energized by ambiguity and moving quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship high-quality product experiences across web surfaces.
• Partner with design and product to translate ideas into polished, accessible UI.
• Own frontend architecture decisions—component systems, state management, routing, and client-side performance.
• Improve reliability, observability, and quality through testing, monitoring, and tooling.
• Collaborate closely with backend and data teams to integrate APIs and deliver end-to-end features.
• Contribute to long-term technical direction and participate in design/architecture reviews.

Location

We are open to hiring in San Francisco, New York, and Seattle.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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