engineering
Posted 4 weeks agoFounding Full Stack Software Engineer, Legal
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- - Own projects end-to-end, from early prototypes and technical exploration through production deployment and iteration.
- - Design and develop intuitive user experiences across frontend and backend systems.
- - Build scalable, reliable systems on top of OpenAI’s internal platforms and APIs while contributing new technical foundations where needed.
Requirements
- ABOUT THE TEAM The Legal team is building the next generation of AI-powered products and experiences for the legal industry.
- We are exploring how advanced AI systems can transform legal workflows, improve access to information, and enable legal professionals and organizations to work more effectively.
- You’ll operate at the intersection of AI, product, and real-world legal workflows—identifying opportunities, building prototypes, and turning emerging ideas into scalable products that can create meaningful impact.
- ABOUT THE ROLE As a Founding Full-Stack Software Engineer on the Legal team, you will help imagine, build, and scale new AI-powered products for the legal industry.
- You’ll have significant ownership from the earliest stages—working closely with product, design, research, and go-to-market partners to understand customer needs, shape product direction, and deliver high-impact solutions.
- YOU WILL: - Build and ship full-stack products that leverage OpenAI models to solve complex problems in legal workflows.
- - Partner closely with product managers, designers, researchers, applied AI teams, and customers to identify opportunities and translate insights into impactful products.
- - Rapidly prototype and experiment with new AI capabilities, using real-world feedback to guide product decisions.
- - Develop a deep understanding of legal workflows, customer needs, and industry challenges to inform technical strategy.
- - Are energized by emerging AI capabilities and the opportunity to rethink how software is built.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Experience
- YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU: - Have 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Additional details
- As a founding member of the Legal engineering team, you will help define the technical foundation for this new product area from the earliest stages.
- We operate with a startup-like mindset inside OpenAI: small teams, rapid iteration cycles, and a willingness to explore bold ideas, learn quickly, and adapt based on user feedback.
- Our goal is to build products that meaningfully improve how legal professionals work while leveraging OpenAI’s cutting-edge models and infrastructure.
- This includes rapidly prototyping new concepts, building production-quality applications on top of OpenAI’s platforms, and developing new technical approaches when existing systems are not sufficient.
- We’re looking for engineers who thrive in ambiguity, have strong product instincts, and enjoy building from 0→1.
- You should be comfortable moving quickly, making thoughtful technical decisions, and taking ownership across the entire product lifecycle—from initial exploration through launch and scale. IN THIS ROLE,
- - Help establish engineering culture, technical standards, and product practices as an early member of the team.
- - Learn from and contribute alongside deeply experienced engineers while fostering a high-trust, inclusive, and candid team environment.
- - Have built and shipped full-stack applications end-to-end, from early prototypes through production systems.
- - Are excited by ambiguous, open-ended problems and can turn broad ideas into shipped products.