Software Engineer, Native Learning Experiences

The role

You will define and build a new class of native learning experiences to help users build AI skills. This is a hands-on, 0-1 product engineering role involving full-stack development from prototype to production.

What you will do

• Own the vision and execution for OAI’s native learning offering
• Build and launch end-to-end product experiences in ChatGPT
• Design core systems including learner state, progress, and telemetry
• Create reusable components and internal tools for education partners
• Build and test entry points, hands-on practice, and feedback systems
• Partner with education, GTM, and engineering teams
• Turn product and learning goals into requirements, prototypes, and metrics
• Evaluate product quality and adoption using product data and learner feedback
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs across speed, quality, and scalability

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on applied AI or user-facing systems
• Substantial experience building and operating high-quality user-facing products
• Record of staff-level technical leadership and hands-on delivery
• Strong full-stack engineering skills including TypeScript, React, backend services, APIs, and relational databases
• Experience building in 0-to-1 or fast-moving product environments
• Strong user empathy and high bar for product quality, accessibility, and safety
• Experience collaborating across engineering, research, product, design, data, and content teams
• Ability to use qualitative feedback and product data to prioritize work
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Careful judgment when building products that shape how people use AI

Nice to have

• Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch
• 5+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies
• Experience building education, edtech, learning, tutoring, coaching, assessment, onboarding, training, or enablement products
• Experience in AI literacy, workforce learning, enterprise enablement, developer education, or similar spaces
• Experience building AI products, LLM applications, developer tools, agent-assisted workflows, or personalized user experiences
• Experience building customer-facing, revenue, sales, support, or go-to-market systems

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI through their products.