OpenAI

Software Engineer, Codex — User Activation

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2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$230k - $385k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build onboarding, setup, and discovery experiences connecting Codex to repositories, tools, environments, and existing workflows.
  • Create product surfaces for discovering Codex capabilities, including plugins, skills, integrations, templates, recommendations, and workflow entry points.
  • Build collaborative team experiences such as workspace setup, invitations, sharing, team configuration, and usage visibility.
  • Develop full-stack systems across web, IDEs, CLI, and integrations with polished user experiences and reliable backend architecture.
  • Partner with product and design on experiments, activation funnels, adoption blockers, and iterative improvements based on user behavior.
  • Work with customers, GTM, and Forward Deployed teams to convert adoption challenges into scalable product capabilities.
  • Help define onboarding, discovery, and activation experiences for Codex.

Requirements

  • Strong full-stack software engineering fundamentals and experience building polished, production-grade user experiences.
  • Comfort working across frontend and backend systems, ideally with React, TypeScript, Python, Go, or similar tools.
  • Experience building onboarding, activation, growth, collaboration, discovery, or developer-product experiences.
  • Ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into simple, intuitive product flows.
  • Comfort collaborating across product, design, engineering, analytics, and customer-facing teams.
  • Ability to use data, experimentation, and user feedback to guide product decisions.
  • Comfort working in zero-to-one environments and navigating ambiguity with strong product judgment.

Categories

Full StackGrowth Engineering
OpenAI

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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