Full Stack Software Engineer, Agent Enablement

Alfie; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 255,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer for Agent Enablement in San Francisco. The role centers on building an open ecosystem of agent-enabled sites and services, with ownership of user and agent identity protocols and cross-platform experiences.

You will drive technical decisions, influence product directions, and remove barriers to progress. The team values impact-driven, autonomous engineers who translate high-level ideas into concrete outcomes and collaborate with research, design,

Qualifications

• Experience shipping customer-facing products from concept to production.
• Comfortable across frontend, backend, APIs, data models, and product design.

Responsibilities

• Design primitives and protocols for an open agent ecosystem across sites and services.
• Build a next-generation user experience to observe and control agents on web, desktop and mobile.
• Evolve token consumption across subscriptions and API customers.
• Execute on fast-paced projects in collaboration with research, design, data science and other product engineering teams.
• Work closely with strategic customers and partners to grow the ecosystem.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Customer-facing product

Frontend

APIs

Job description

Full Stack Software Engineer, Agent Enablement

San Francisco Hybrid Full-time Mid $255k – $405k/yr 3 weeks ago

About the role

About the Team

The Agent Enablement team works across engineering, product, design, and research to bring our technology to the world.

We seek to learn from deployment and broadly distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. We aim to make our innovative tools globally accessible, transcending geographic, economic, and platform barriers. Our commitment is to facilitate the use of AI to enhance lives, supported by rigorous insights into how people use our products.

About the Role

We are looking for experienced full-stack engineers to join our new Agent Enablement team. Our goal is to design and grow an open ecosystem of agent-enabled sites and services. This is a wide-ranging role: you’ll build new user and agent identity protocols, user experiences to control and observe agents across web, desktop, and mobile, and much more.

We will rely on you to drive our technical decisions while also steering our product and partnership direction, optimizing for both short‑term impact and long‑term success of the ecosystem. We value engineers who are impact‑driven, autonomous, and adept at removing barriers to forward progress.

In this role, you will:

• Design the primitives and protocols for an open agent ecosystem, enabling our users’ agents to make the best use of sites and services across the internet.
• Build a next‑generation user experience to observe and control agents, across web, desktop, and mobile.
• Evolve our approach to token consumption across subscriptions and API customers.
• Execute on fast‑paced projects in collaboration with research, design, data science and other product engineering teams.
• Work closely with our strategic customers and partners to grow the ecosystem.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have strong full‑stack engineering skills and experience shipping customer‑facing products from concept to production. You’re comfortable working across frontend, backend, APIs, data models, and product design.
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions. You view change as an opportunity to bring structure and clarity, and you have a track record of turning high‑level ideas into successful outcomes.
• Have worked closely with users and customers, and can translate feedback into product improvements.
• Are familiar with enterprise software concepts such as identity, permissions, governance, compliance, and billing.
• Enjoy fast‑moving zero‑to‑one environments and are excited to pursue an internet‑wide vision.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.