Software Engineer, ChatGPT Shopping

OpenAI; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking exceptional full stack product engineers to build polished consumer experiences from the ground up. You will design end-to-end product experiences across web services, APIs, and modern frontend applications, partnering with product, design, and research to rapidly prototype AI-native experiences.

You’ll develop scalable backend systems powering real-time, personalized product experiences, work with multimodal capabilities including text and images, and iterate quickly based on

Qualifications

• Significant experience building consumer-facing products end to end.
• Comfortable moving across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product architecture.
• Strong craft, user experience, and product quality focus.
• Thrives in ambiguity and takes ideas from zero to one.
• Thinks like both an engineer and a product builder.
• Shows strong systems thinking with attention to detail.
• Communicates well across engineering, design, product, and research teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build end-to-end product experiences across web services, APIs, and modern frontend applications.
• Partner closely with product, design, and research to rapidly prototype and launch new AI-native experiences.
• Build intuitive, performant interfaces that make advanced AI capabilities feel simple and delightful.
• Develop scalable backend systems that power personalised, real-time product experiences.
• Work with multimodal capabilities including text, images, and interactive UI components.
• Iterate quickly using user feedback, experimentation, and product metrics.
• Help define engineering standards, architecture, and technical direction for a fast-growing product area.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Next.js

API design

Python

Go

Node.js

Rust

UX focus

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

About the Team

ChatGPT is evolving from answering questions to becoming a deeply personalized assistant that helps people discover, create, and make decisions across everyday life. We’re building new multimodal product experiences that combine language, images, personalization, and interactive interfaces to help millions of users accomplish tasks in entirely new ways.

This team sits at the intersection of AI research, product engineering, design, and consumer experiences. We move quickly, ship frequently, and work on products that define how people interact with AI every day.

About the Role

We’re looking for exceptional full stack product engineers who love building polished consumer experiences from the ground up.

You’ll work across frontend, backend, AI‑powered workflows, and rich interactive interfaces to create new product experiences that blend conversation, visual understanding, personalization, and commerce. You’ll collaborate closely with designers, researchers, product managers, and model teams to rapidly prototype, launch, and iterate on experiences used by millions of people.

This is an opportunity to help invent entirely new interaction paradigms—not just build traditional web applications.

In This Role, You Will

• Design and build end‑to‑end product experiences across web services, APIs, and modern frontend applications.
• Partner closely with product, design, and research to rapidly prototype and launch new AI‑native experiences.
• Build intuitive, performant interfaces that make advanced AI capabilities feel simple and delightful.
• Develop scalable backend systems that power personalised, real‑time product experiences.
• Work with multimodal capabilities including text, images, and interactive UI components.
• Iterate quickly using user feedback, experimentation, and product metrics.
• Help define engineering standards, architecture, and technical direction for a fast‑growing product area.

You Might Thrive If You

• Have significant experience building consumer‑facing products end to end.
• Are comfortable moving across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product architecture.
• Care deeply about craft, user experience, and product quality.
• Enjoy ambiguity and are energised by taking ideas from zero to one.
• Think like both an engineer and a product builder.
• Have strong systems thinking while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
• Communicate well across engineering, design, product, and research teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience with modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, Next.js, or similar).
• Experience building scalable backend services using Python, Go, Node.js, Rust, or comparable technologies.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience building highly interactive consumer products.
• Background working with AI, machine learning products, search, recommendations, personalisation, or multimodal systems is a plus.
• A track record of shipping products quickly while maintaining engineering quality.

What Success Looks Like

Successful engineers on this team combine strong technical execution with excellent product judgement. They move fluidly between prototyping and production systems, collaborate effectively across disciplines, and consistently deliver experiences that feel intuitive, elegant and magical to users.

They’re excited by fast iteration, comfortable making decisions with imperfect information, and motivated by building products that redefine how people use AI every day.

Why OpenAI

At OpenAI, you’ll work alongside some of the world’s best researchers, engineers, designers, and product thinkers to build AI that benefits everyone. We value curiosity, ownership, humility, and a bias toward shipping impactful products.

If you’re excited about inventing new consumer experiences powered by frontier AI—and want to help shape the future of how millions of people interact with technology—we’d love to hear from you.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all 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, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristic.

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