Developer Experience Engineer

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Go To Market

This role focuses on creating developer experiences, tools, and content to help developers integrate OpenAI's AI models (like Codex, GPT-5.5, GPT-Image-2) into their applications. It involves building demos, writing tutorials, engaging with the developer community, and gathering feedback to improve products. While it uses AI models, the core craft is developer enablement, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop demos and sample applications that showcase best practices for building with Codex, frontier models, multimodal capabilities, and agents.
  2. Create high-quality technical content—including tutorials, blog posts, videos, and code samples—to educate and inspire the developer community about our models, APIs, and Codex.
  3. Actively engage with and foster a vibrant local and global developer ecosystem around OpenAI’s platform and products.
  4. Represent OpenAI at developer events and online, serving as a knowledgeable and approachable advocate for developers.
  5. Gather and synthesize developer feedback to inform and improve our product roadmap.

Skills

Required

  • Full-stack engineering
  • Building applications with AI/LLMs
  • Creating technical content
  • Developer tooling
  • Community engagement

Nice to have

  • User empathy
  • Coding
  • Working in dynamic environments
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • AI ethics and safety

What the JD emphasized

  • robust full-stack engineering background
  • demonstrated experience building innovative applications using AI and large language models (LLMs)
  • proven track record of successfully creating engaging technical content, compelling demos, or innovative developer tooling