Frontend Software Engineer, ChatGPT Space

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 385,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a Frontend Software Engineer to build a top-tier collaboration experience for Space. You’ll work closely with design to prototype, iterate, and polish new interaction models, then scale them into reliable product features.

You’ll define what great collaboration looks like between people and AI, ensuring clarity, control, and fast iteration as work moves between teammates and agents. Ideal candidates have strong frontend craft and performance focus.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with React and TypeScript in production
• Proven ability to ship high-quality UI with performance focus
• Experience with collaborative applications or AI-powered products is a plus

Responsibilities

• Build and ship polished, high-performance UI for Space collaboration workflows.
• Partner with design to turn prototypes into production-quality experiences.
• Develop intuitive interfaces for creating and editing shared content and reviewing contributions.
• Own frontend architecture decisions across component systems, state management, and rendering performance.
• Improve quality through testing, accessibility, and responsive UX for loading and errors.
• Collaborate with research, platform, and backend teams to integrate model capabilities into the product.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend Architecture

UI Craft

Performance Optimization

Design Collaboration

Job description

About The Team

The ChatGPT Space team is building a shared workspace where people and AI agents turn ideas into polished, editable work. Space brings teammates, ChatGPT, and dots together around shared knowledge and projects, with creation experiences spanning Pages, Sheets, Slides, and new kinds of artifacts.

About The Team

The ChatGPT Space team is building a shared workspace where people and AI agents turn ideas into polished, editable work. Space brings teammates, ChatGPT, and dots together around shared knowledge and projects, with creation experiences spanning Pages, Sheets, Slides, and new kinds of artifacts.

We want work to keep improving beyond the first draft, using shared context and collaboration to stay current as projects evolve. We work across product, design, and research, partnering closely with model training teams to shape how frontier models create and edit artifacts. We ship quickly, learn from real usage, and hold a high bar for craft, correctness, and speed.

About The Role

We’re hiring a Frontend Software Engineer to build a top-tier collaboration experience and help shape how people work with AI. This is a craft-heavy role: you’ll partner closely with design to prototype, iterate, and polish new interaction models, then turn them into reliable, high-performance product experiences.

You’ll help define what great looks like for collaboration between people and agents: how shared context is represented, how contributions and changes are made understandable, and how users stay oriented and in control as work moves between teammates and AI.

What You’ll Do

• Build and ship polished, high-performance UI for Space and its collaborative workflows.
• Partner tightly with design to turn prototypes into production-quality experiences, from layout and typography to motion and interaction details.
• Develop intuitive interfaces for creating and editing shared content, organizing project context, and reviewing contributions from teammates and AI as work evolves.
• Own frontend architecture decisions across component systems, state management, navigation, and rendering performance.
• Improve quality and reliability through testing, instrumentation, accessibility, and thoughtful UX for loading, errors, and concurrent changes.
• Collaborate with research, platform, and backend partners to bring model capabilities into cohesive creation, editing, and collaboration experiences.

You Might Thrive Here If You

• Have strong experience with modern frontend stacks such as React and TypeScript, and a high bar for UI craft.
• Love design engineering: sweating the details while keeping velocity.
• Have built rich, interactive product experiences and care deeply about performance, responsiveness, and usability.
• Enjoy exploring ambiguous problems and iterating rapidly with design and product.
• Think in end-to-end workflows and can make complex interactions feel clear and intuitive.
• Have experience with collaborative applications, rich-text editors, real-time interfaces, or AI-powered products (nice-to-have).

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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Compensation Range: $230K - $385K