OpenAI

Software Engineer, Codex — User Activation

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3 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

10,000+ employees

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.

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