Full-Stack Software Engineer, Emerging Products
OpenAI · San Francisco
About this role
## About the Team The Emerging Products team is a lean, high-output product lab group that builds products at the forefront of model capabilities. We collaborate across all teams within the company—from research and infrastructure to consumer products. The team identifies new product opportunities, builds them quickly, dogfooding them internally, and then launches successful products to users. We use data, user research, and analytics to inform our ideas and decide which experiments are worth iterating, stopping, or scaling. ## About the Role We’re looking for a **senior, product-minded software engineer** to own ambiguous **0-to-1** work—from idea through prototype, validation, and handoff. This is a **full-stack role** with a strong **frontend and product emphasis**. You’ll build the interfaces and supporting backend systems needed to test new experiences quickly, while making sound architectural choices that enable successful concepts to scale. **Location:** Mission Bay office, San Francisco. ## In this role, you will: - Build and ship high-quality, product experiments across the full stack. - Turn ambiguous user needs and emerging technical capabilities into testable product concepts, using research and metrics to guide iteration. - Own technical direction for 0-to-1 projects, balancing speed, reliability, and a clear path from prototype to scalable product. - Partner closely with design, product, research, and engineering teams to dogfood, evaluate, launch, and transition successful experiments. ## You might thrive if you: - Have a track record of building and shipping end-to-end products in fast-moving, startup, founder-led, growth, or other high-ownership environments. - Bring strong frontend engineering skills and enough backend/systems depth to make sound full-stack architectural decisions. - Pair product intuition with evidence—using user research and product data to identify opportunities and make pragmatic tradeoffs. - Operate with high autonomy, move quickly through ambiguity, and create lightweight structure where little exists. - Communicate clearly across disciplines and are willing to learn whatever is needed to move a product forward. ## About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them through our products. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. *Background checks and additional employment-related policies may apply for US-based candidates.*
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