3 months ago
Base Salary
$293k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and scale developer-facing products including the OpenAI API Playground, documentation experiences, onboarding flows, examples, and API workflow tools.
- Own full-stack projects from product definition and UX collaboration through backend implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration.
- Improve systems that generate, maintain, and publish SDKs, API references, documentation, guides, and developer examples.
- Partner with API, research, design, and infrastructure teams to bring new model capabilities and API primitives to developers.
- Use developer feedback, product analytics, and direct customer insight to identify friction and improve the API experience.
- Help set technical and product direction for a new NYC-based team with broad ownership of OpenAI’s developer experience.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in product-driven engineering teams.
- Strong 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 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.
- Experience with documentation systems, SDKs, API design, developer tools, or technical content pipelines is preferred.
- Ability to collaborate 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 machine learning experience is helpful but not required.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving environment with loosely defined problems and competing priorities.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.