Principal Software Engineer, ChatGPT Education and Learning

The role

You will set technical direction and lead the design and development of products that help millions of people learn with ChatGPT. You will build polished interfaces and scalable backend services while working with product managers, designers, and researchers.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end development of learning experiences in ChatGPT.
• Drive product and design decisions with product managers and designers.
• Set technical direction for complex initiatives and guide architecture decisions.
• Build multimodal learning capabilities combining text, images, voice, and interactive interfaces.
• Develop scalable services and APIs to support learning features.
• Work with researchers, platform teams, designers, and engineers to prototype ideas.
• Improve performance, reliability, and usability across ChatGPT learning surfaces.
• Support other engineers through mentorship, code reviews, and technical guidance.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Track record of shipping high-quality products across the full stack.
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives and making architecture decisions.
• Experience driving product and design decisions in partnership with product managers and designers.
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous problems and translate them into practical product solutions.
• Strong product engineering instincts.

Nice to have

• Experience building interactive educational tools or learning products.
• Experience developing AI-powered applications or systems built around large language models.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance is available to new employees.

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.