Founding Fullstack Software Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; hybrid

Salary: $347K–$445K plus equity

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company building products intended to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits humanity.

What you will do

• Work directly with consulting design partners and engagement leaders to observe workflows and identify problems that apply across firms.
• Design and prototype interfaces that help consultants perform important parts of their work more effectively.
• Build across the stack, from frontend interfaces to backend services and APIs connecting OpenAI models with consulting tools.
• Develop products for firms with different methods and working environments while protecting confidential client information.
• Evaluate products with design partners and researchers using real assignments, then use feedback and production data to improve them.
• Ship products broadly to consulting teams and own rollout and reliability.

Requirements

• Experience shipping and operating a substantial product with hands-on ownership across frontend and backend systems.
• Strong product and interface judgment, especially for software outputs that users need to understand, question, or correct.
• Ability to work directly with users and identify broader problems behind individual customer requests.
• Ability to turn unfamiliar workflows into working prototypes and make technical choices that support many teams.
• Ability to make and explain tradeoffs between quality, speed, and reliability across disciplines.

Nice to have

• Firsthand consulting experience combined with hands-on software development and shipping experience.
• Experience building software for research, analysis, collaboration, or other complex professional work.
• Experience developing AI applications and evaluating their usefulness with expert users.
• Experience designing enterprise products that handle sensitive information or support different organizational workflows.
• Experience taking a product from its first users to broad adoption as a founder or early engineer.

Culture & Benefits

• Work closely with product, design, research, engineering, and consulting partners.
• Full-time employment with equity included in the compensation package.
• OpenAI values safety, human needs, and diverse perspectives in AI development.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
• Background checks apply in accordance with applicable law for US-based candidates.