OpenAI

Software Engineer, Native Learning Experiences

OpenAI
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Base Salary

$266k - $385k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the vision and execution of OpenAI’s native learning offering.
  • Build and launch end-to-end product experiences in ChatGPT that help users develop and apply AI skills through real work.
  • Design systems for learner state, progress, re-entry, content and runtime integration, experimentation, telemetry, and evaluation.
  • Create reusable components and internal tools that enable education and content partners to develop, configure, test, and improve learning experiences.
  • Build entry points, hands-on practice, feedback, telemetry, and evaluation capabilities, using real-world evidence to guide iteration.
  • Partner with engineering, education, learning science, research, design, data, content, support, and customer-facing teams.
  • Translate learning and product goals into requirements, prototypes, milestones, reusable UI patterns, and product metrics.
  • Evaluate product quality, learning, transfer to real work, and adoption using product data, learner feedback, and operational signals.
  • Make pragmatic tradeoffs across speed, quality, scalability, and operational simplicity in a 0-to-1 product area.

Requirements

  • Substantial experience building and operating high-quality user-facing products with staff-level technical leadership and hands-on delivery.
  • Strong full-stack engineering skills, including TypeScript, React, backend services and APIs, relational databases, stateful user flows, and instrumentation.
  • Practical judgment regarding distributed systems, reliability, performance, accessibility, safety, and security.
  • Experience building products in 0-to-1 or fast-moving environments where user needs, product direction, and success measures evolve.
  • Experience collaborating across engineering, research, product, design, data, content, operations, and customer-facing teams.
  • Ability to use qualitative feedback and product data to identify friction, prioritize work, and improve outcomes.
  • Clear written and verbal communication and the ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs to varied audiences.
  • Strong user empathy, product judgment, and care when building products that shape how people understand and use AI.
  • Preferred experience includes 5+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships.
  • Preferred experience includes startup founding or early-stage product development, education or learning products, AI literacy, enterprise enablement, AI products, LLM applications, developer tools, agent-assisted workflows, personalized experiences, or customer-facing and go-to-market systems.
  • Preferred experience includes translating research into product decisions, experiments, evaluation, measurement, and iteration.
  • Preferred experience includes building products for both individual users and organizations, including administrative, reporting, or support-readiness features.

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About OpenAI

1,001-5,000 employees

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. 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.

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