Frontend Engineer, Chatgpt Engineering

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Applied AI

Frontend Engineer responsible for building and shipping high-quality product experiences across ChatGPT's web surfaces. This role involves partnering with design and product teams, owning frontend architecture decisions, and improving reliability and observability. The engineer will collaborate with backend and data teams to integrate APIs and deliver end-to-end features, contributing to the long-term technical direction.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and ship high-quality product experiences across web surfaces.
  2. Partner with design and product to translate ideas into polished, accessible UI.
  3. Own frontend architecture decisions—component systems, state management, routing, and client-side performance.
  4. Improve reliability, observability, and quality through testing, monitoring, and tooling.
  5. Collaborate closely with backend and data teams to integrate APIs and deliver end-to-end features.

Skills

Required

  • modern web frameworks (e.g., React, TypeScript)
  • building production UI at scale
  • performance
  • accessibility
  • detail-oriented
  • collaboration with design and product
  • working across the stack

Nice to have

  • energized by ambiguity
  • moving quickly
  • high quality bar

What the JD emphasized

  • shipping features
  • frontend architecture
  • performance
  • reliability
  • observability