About the company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
About the role
The Emerging Products team is a lean, high-output product lab group that builds products at the forefront of model capabilities. We're looking for a senior, product-minded software engineer to own ambiguous 0-to-1 work from idea through prototype, validation, and handoff. This role is based in our Mission Bay office in San Francisco.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship high-quality product experiments across the full stack.
- Turn ambiguous user needs and emerging technical capabilities into testable product concepts, using research and metrics to guide iteration.
- Own technical direction for 0-to-1 projects, balancing speed, reliability, and a clear path from prototype to scalable product.
- Partner closely with design, product, research, and engineering teams to dogfood, evaluate, launch, and transition successful experiments.
Requirements
- Track record of building and shipping end-to-end products in fast-moving, startup, founder-led, growth, or other high-ownership environments.
- Strong frontend engineering skills and enough backend and systems depth to make sound full-stack architectural decisions.
- Product intuition paired with evidence, using user research and product data to identify opportunities and make pragmatic tradeoffs.
- High degree of autonomy, ability to move quickly through ambiguity, and create lightweight structure where little exists.
- Clear communication across disciplines.