Founding Software Engineer, Physical Engineering

The role

You will build and ship full-stack AI products to help mechanical and electrical engineers with design and simulation tasks. You will work across frontend experiences, backend services, and integrations to bring AI into engineering workflows.

What you will do

• Build and ship full-stack AI products for design and simulation tasks.
• Own projects from customer discovery and prototyping through production.
• Create intuitive interfaces for complex engineering outputs.
• Develop backend services, APIs, plugins, and integrations.
• Work directly with customers to translate needs into products.
• Partner with research, design, platform, and forward deployed engineering teams.
• Evaluate quality and reliability using customer feedback.
• Help establish technical foundations and engineering practices.

Required qualifications

• Independently built and shipped substantial software products with ownership across frontend and backend systems.
• Strong product instincts and UI judgment.
• Ability to turn ambiguous opportunity into a working product.
• Ability to move quickly and make pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar tools and domains quickly.
• Ability to communicate clearly across disciplines.

Nice to have

• Building CAD, CAE, simulation, electrical design, or related professional software.
• Developing interactive tools for visual, spatial, or technically complex workflows.
• Connecting engineering tools through APIs, plugins, or extensions.
• Building AI-powered applications and evaluating their usefulness and reliability.
• Taking a product from concept to production as a founder or early engineer.

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 to the world through their products.