Software Engineer, ChatGPT Shopping

The role

You will design and build end-to-end product experiences across web services, APIs, and modern frontend applications. You will work across frontend, backend, AI-powered workflows, and interactive interfaces to create products that blend conversation, visual understanding, personalization, and commerce.

What you will do

• 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 personalized, 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.

Required qualifications

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

Nice to have

• 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, personalization, or multimodal systems is a plus.
• A track record of shipping products quickly while maintaining engineering quality.

About the company

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