Software Engineer, Applied Emerging Talent (2027)

Openai
San Francisco, CA
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Geared toward early-career engineers comfortable with end-to-end product development in a fast-paced, collaborative setting.

Best fit for

  • Early-career engineers with a passion for AI/ML and user-centric product design
    — “Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)”
  • Candidates who thrive in iterative, cross-functional environments with shifting priorities
    — “Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines”
  • Individuals with technical versatility in JavaScript, React, and Python
    — “Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and some backend languages (we use Python)”

Things to consider

  • The role requires handling sensitive data and maintaining strict confidentiality
    — “maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information”
  • Candidates must be prepared to comply with background check requirements
    — “Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with user research and problem-solving in your resume and interviews
    — “Talk to users to understand their problems and design solutions to address them”
  • Demonstrate your ability to work cross-functionally and deliver results in ambiguity
    — “Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations folks to create cutting-edge products”
  • Showcase projects that involve optimizing software for speed and scale
    — “Optimize applications for speed and scale”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Individual

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Developed new customer-facing features for ChatGPT and OpenAI API
Typical background
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Skills & requirements

Required

JavaScriptReactBackend LanguagesDatabase Management

Preferred

Ai/ml Knowledge

Stack & domain

JavaScriptReactPythonPostgreSQLMySQLAIML

About the role

Original posting from Openai via Ashby

About the Team

The Applied team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world. We seek to learn from deployment and broadly distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. We aim to make our innovative tools globally accessible, transcending geographic, economic, or platform barriers. Our commitment is to facilitate the use of AI to enhance lives, fostered by rigorous insights into how people use our products.

About the Role

We are seeking Software Engineers (Emerging Talent) to join our Applied Engineering team. You’ll work in a highly iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure it’s delivered with safety and reliability in mind. We value engineers who are self-starters, care deeply about the end user experience, and take pride in building products to solve customer needs.

In this role, you will:

  • Own the development of new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features and product experiences end-to-end
  • Talk to users to understand their problems and design solutions to address them
  • Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations folks to create cutting-edge products
  • Optimize applications for speed and scale
  • Create a diverse and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome.

Your background looks something like:

  • Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 0-1 years of experience in software engineering or a relevant field
  • Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and some backend languages (we use Python)
  • Some experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
  • Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)
  • Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines

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 the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link https://form.asana.com/?k=bQ7w9h3iexRlicUdWRiwvg&d=57018692298241.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Source: Openai careers (Ashby)

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