Full-Stack Software Engineer, Social Products

Openai • San Francisco, CA

125d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer on the Social Products team, you will prototype, build, iteratively rebuild, and deploy new products in the social space. The team aims to use OpenAI's technology to rethink communication, collaboration, and creation. We aim for practically useful, easy to understand, powerful primitives that compose together into delightful products. Your work will be developing features (frontend and backend), processing data, prompting models, and pairing with designers to build new products that spark joy. The role includes building production systems to deploy our features by leveraging the high scale internal platforms powering ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. When needed, you will build new systems that scale. Our ideal candidate works well in small, nimble teams and is not afraid to go back to the drawing board frequently. We're looking for creative people who have ideas, and have execution strength.

Requirements

• Demonstrated building and shipping full stack apps that get users and traction in a startup environment
• Developed interesting features on complex, high scale systems
• Ability to handle very high ambiguity and independently execute on a 'product spec' written in a single sentence
• Open to receiving and giving feedback kindly and directly
• Proficient in coding with typescript, css, python, rust, or whatever language is needed to get things done

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a startup environment
• Ability to build new projects to test new ideas

Responsibilities

• Prototype new features and designs for social products
• Iterate rapidly on functional prototypes that reimagine how AI can make social media better
• Ship code quickly and often, turning ideas into working demos
• Build scalable systems to deploy the best ideas into production
• Hand off some interesting ideas to other product teams to explore when better suited to their focus
• Work with some of the longest tenured engineers at the company

Benefits

• Relocation assistance
• Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services