Software Engineer, Full Stack — Dots

The role

Senior and Staff Full Stack Software Engineers will build Dots product experiences from the interface through the services that power them. You will build features across web interfaces, APIs, backend services, and data models to help people delegate tasks to personal agents.

What you will do

• Build and launch features across web interfaces, APIs, backend services, and data models.
• Create workflows for task creation, progress updates, agent feedback, and results.
• Translate emerging model capabilities into product prototypes with research, product, and design partners.
• Design clear interfaces between product surfaces and agent execution systems.
• Improve performance and reliability across the stack.
• Own projects from early exploration through architecture, implementation, launch, and iteration.
• Help establish technical direction, testing practices, and observability.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience building and shipping products across frontend and backend systems.
• Ability to move between user interfaces, service design, APIs, and data modeling.
• Strong product instincts.
• Experience taking ambiguous ideas from concept to production and making practical tradeoffs.
• Understanding of asynchronous workflows and reasoning about state, consistency, and failure across system boundaries.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with design, product, research, and engineering partners.
• Experience owning complex engineering projects and helping other engineers make technical decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience launching new consumer products
• Building agent or workflow applications
• Working in small teams with broad engineering ownership
• Prior experience with AI or machine learning

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Dots is a team within OpenAI building personal AI agents.