engineering
Posted Jun 25Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience
at openai
New York City, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Own full stack projects end to end, from product definition and UX collaboration through backend implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration.
Requirements
- About the Team OpenAI’s API Platform organization builds the products and infrastructure that help first-party and third-party developers build with OpenAI models.
- We ship the API primitives, tools, SDKs, documentation, playgrounds, and platform experiences that make OpenAI’s capabilities reliable, understandable, and useful in production. The API
- Experience team is focused on the end-to-end developer experience for the OpenAI API.
- We own the surfaces developers touch every day: docs, SDKs, the Playground, examples, onboarding flows, and the systems that help developers go from first request to production deployment quickly and confidently.
- About the Role We’re looking for full stack and frontend engineers to help define and build the next generation of OpenAI’s developer experience.
- In this role, you’ll work across frontend product surfaces, backend systems, SDK and documentation pipelines, and API workflows that serve millions of developers and companies.
- You’ll partner closely with product, design, research, API engineering, and developer-facing teams to make complex AI capabilities simple to understand, easy to test, and safe to launch in real-world applications.
- you will: - Build and scale developer-facing products including the OpenAI API Playground, documentation experiences, onboarding flows, examples, and API workflow tools.
- experience with TypeScript, React, and modern web application development. - Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar. -
- Experience with documentation systems, SDKs, API design, developer tools, or technical content pipelines is a strong plus. - Comfort working across product, design, engineering, research, and external developer feedback loops. - Care for reliability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability in production systems. - Interest in AI and developer platforms; direct ML
- experience is helpful but not required. - Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment with loosely defined problems and competing priorities.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Experience
- Your background might look something like: - 5+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in product-driven engineering teams. - Strong
Additional details
- This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who cares deeply about craft, developer empathy, reliability, and product velocity. In this role,
- - Partner with API, research, design, and infrastructure teams to bring new model capabilities and API primitives to developers in a clear, usable way.
- - Help set technical and product direction for a new NYC-based team with broad ownership over OpenAI’s developer experience.
- Experience designing, building, and operating production APIs, services, databases, or developer tooling. - Strong product judgment and a track record of turning ambiguous developer problems into simple, high-quality product experiences. -