Full Stack Software Engineer, Health AI

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 293,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity offers

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer focused on Health AI in San Francisco. You will design and build scalable systems that enhance health outcomes and ensure compliance with regulations.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in software engineering and enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality health solutions. The role comes with competitive compensation ranging from $293K to $325K along with equity offers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience writing maintainable, production-quality code.
• Strong engineer who enjoys building durable, well-designed systems.
• Comfortable with compliance and data plumbing tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable fullstack systems for consumer and enterprise health.
• Own end-to-end feature development from design to deployment.
• Collaborate closely with researchers and integrate evaluation into production.

Skills

System design and architecture

Full stack development

Healthcare knowledge

Data handling and compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Full Stack Software Engineer, Health AI

Applied AI Engineering - San Francisco

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable fullstack systems for consumer and enterprise health.
• Own end-to-end feature development—from early design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and services that meet strict privacy, security, and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA).
• Collaborate closely with researchers and safety teams to integrate reliability, evaluation, and guardrails into production systems.
• Debug, optimize, and harden systems to support high availability, performance, and global scale.
• Take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive them to practical, high-quality solutions.

Qualifications

• Deeply motivated by improving health outcomes and expanding access to medical expertise.
• Strong engineer who enjoys building durable, well-designed systems.
• 5+ years of experience writing maintainable, production-quality code.
• Can operate with high agency—owning problems end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Enjoy working in fast-moving, cross-functional teams with engineers, product managers, designers, and researchers.
• Comfortable doing unglamorous but essential work when it is needed for the mission (e.g., compliance, data plumbing, reliability).
• Goal-oriented rather than tool-oriented, choosing what works over what is fashionable.
• Thoughtful about the societal impact of AI and aligned with OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity.

Bonus if you have

• Strong product engineering instincts—able to take a rough spec and ship a polished solution.
• Entrepreneurial drive or previous experience as a founder.
• Prior experience with health-related products.
• High-quality public code (e.g., GitHub projects, open-source contributions).
• Experience building compliant or regulated products (healthcare, enterprise, finance, or similar).
• Experience with distributed systems, backend architecture, or large-scale data pipelines.

Compensation

$293K – $325K + Offers Equity

Equal Opportunity

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.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.