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Were looking for a full-stack engineer to design and deliver end-to-end product features that connect client applications with scalable cloud services. Youll work across the entire stackmobile, embedded, and web apps, as well as backend systemsto build fast, reliable experiences that balance real-world constraints with excellent UX.

About The Role

Were looking for a full-stack engineer to design and deliver end-to-end product features that connect client applications with scalable cloud services. Youll work across the entire stackmobile, embedded, and web apps, as well as backend systemsto build fast, reliable experiences that balance real-world constraints with excellent UX.

Youll collaborate with designers and cross-functional teams to prototype solutions, then take them from concept to production. The ideal candidate has strong product instincts, understands the tradeoffs between client and cloud systems, and cares deeply about building delightful user experiences.

Core Responsibilities

• Partner with designers and product teams to create intuitive, performant experiences.
• Architect APIs, data flows, and sync mechanisms that perform under real-world conditions.
• Continuously simplify, refine, and optimize performance across client and server.
• Balance rapid iteration with long-term system quality and maintainability.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience across both client and server environments.
• Strong understanding of constraints in client applications (e.g., memory, power, offline) and cloud systems (e.g., latency, scalability).
• Proven track record of building and shipping user-facing products end-to-end.
• Experience collaborating with designers and cross-functional teams.
• Comfortable working from zero-to-one on early-stage products and iterating quickly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-connected systems and applied AI technologies.
• Familiarity with mobile or embedded systems, as well as modern backend frameworks.
• Background in instrumentation, analytics, and performance tuning.
• Strong design collaboration and product intuition.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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