Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI’s API Platform organization is hiring for full stack and frontend engineers to shape the next generation of the OpenAI developer experience. You will work across frontend surfaces, backend systems, SDK and documentation pipelines, and API workflows that serve millions of developers and companies.

You’ll partner with product, design, research, API engineering, and developer-facing teams to make AI capabilities simple to understand, easy to test, and safe to launch in real-world

Responsibilities

• Build and scale developer-facing products including the OpenAI API Playground, documentation experiences, onboarding flows, examples, and API workflow tools.
• Own full stack projects end to end, from product definition and UX collaboration through backend implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration.
• Improve the systems that generate, maintain, and publish SDKs, API references, docs, guides, and developer examples.
• Partner with API, research, design, and infrastructure teams to bring new model capabilities and API primitives to developers in a clear, usable way.

Job description

OpenAI’s API Platform organization builds the products and infrastructure that help first‑party and third‑party developers build with OpenAI models. We ship the API primitives, tools, SDKs, documentation, playgrounds, and platform experiences that make OpenAI’s capabilities reliable, understandable, and useful in production. The API Experience team is focused on the end‑to‑end developer experience for the OpenAI API. We own the surfaces developers touch every day: docs, SDKs, the Playground, examples, onboarding flows, and the systems that help developers go from first request to production deployment quickly and confidently.

About the Role

We’re looking for full stack and frontend engineers to help define and build the next generation of OpenAI’s developer experience. In this role, you’ll work across frontend product surfaces, backend systems, SDK and documentation pipelines, and API workflows that serve millions of developers and companies. You’ll partner closely with product, design, research, API engineering, and developer‑facing teams to make complex AI capabilities simple to understand, easy to test, and safe to launch in real‑world applications. This is a highly cross‑functional role for someone who cares deeply about craft, developer empathy, reliability, and product velocity.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale developer-facing products including the OpenAI API Playground, documentation experiences, onboarding flows, examples, and API workflow tools.
• Own full stack projects end to end, from product definition and UX collaboration through backend implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration.
• Improve the systems that generate, maintain, and publish SDKs, API references, docs, guides, and developer examples.
• Partner with API, research, design, and infrastructure teams to bring new model capabilities and API primitives to developers in a clear, usable way.
• Use developer feedback, product analytics, and direct customer insight to identif