Software Engineer, Codex — User Activation
About The Position
With Codex, OpenAI is building an AI software engineer that can act as a pair programmer, delegate tasks, or proactively handle future work. The Codex team is responsible for creating state-of-the-art AI systems capable of writing code, understanding software, and serving as intelligent agents for both developers and non-developers. This involves operating across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure, managing the entire lifecycle of experimentation, deployment, and iteration of novel coding capabilities. Codex Enterprise focuses on building the ecosystem, governance, and enterprise features to facilitate the widespread adoption of Codex among developers, teams, and organizations globally. The User Activation team specifically concentrates on product experiences designed to help developers discover Codex, comprehend its functionalities, integrate it into their existing workflows, and transition from initial use to sustained adoption across their teams.
Requirements
- Strong full-stack software engineering fundamentals and experience building polished, production-grade user experiences.
- Comfortable working across frontend and backend systems, ideally with technologies such as React, TypeScript, Python, Go, or similar tools.
- Experience building onboarding, activation, growth, collaboration, discovery, or developer-product experiences.
- Care deeply about user experience and can turn ambiguous customer problems into simple, intuitive product flows.
- Enjoy working across product, design, engineering, analytics, and customer-facing teams.
- Comfortable using data, experimentation, and user feedback to guide product decisions.
- Enjoy 0 → 1 environments, move quickly through ambiguity, and bring strong product judgment to technical trade-offs.
Responsibilities
- Build onboarding, setup, and discovery experiences that help developers quickly connect Codex to their repositories, tools, environments, and existing workflows.
- Create product surfaces that help users discover Codex capabilities, including plugins, skills, integrations, templates, recommendations, and workflow entry points.
- Build collaborative team experiences that make Codex easier to adopt across organizations, including workspace setup, invitations, sharing, team-level configuration, and usage visibility.
- Develop full-stack systems across web, IDEs, CLI, and integrations, balancing polished user experience with reliable backend architecture.
- Partner with product and design to run experiments, understand activation funnels, identify adoption blockers, and iterate quickly based on real user behavior.
- Work directly with customers, GTM, and Forward Deployed teams to translate real-world adoption challenges into scalable product capabilities.
- Help define what great onboarding, discovery, and activation look like for an AI software engineering teammate.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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