Founding Full Stack Software Engineer, Legal

The role

You will build and scale AI-powered products for the legal industry. You will work across the stack to design user experiences and build backend systems using OpenAI models.

What you will do

• Build and ship full-stack products that leverage OpenAI models.
• Own projects end-to-end from prototypes to production deployment.
• Design and develop intuitive user experiences across frontend and backend systems.
• Build scalable, reliable systems on top of OpenAI internal platforms and APIs.
• Partner with product managers, designers, researchers, and customers.
• Rapidly prototype and experiment with new AI capabilities.
• Develop understanding of legal workflows and customer needs.
• Help establish engineering culture, technical standards, and product practices.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Built and shipped full-stack applications end-to-end, from early prototypes through production systems.
• Strong frontend and backend engineering skills.

Nice to have

• Excited by ambiguous, open-ended problems
• Strong product instincts
• Energized by emerging AI capabilities
• Thrive in small, high-ownership teams

About the company

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