Software Engineer, Chatgpt Shopping

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

Software Engineer role focused on building end-to-end consumer-facing product experiences for ChatGPT Shopping, integrating multimodal capabilities (text, images, UI) with AI-powered workflows, personalization, and commerce. The role involves full-stack development, rapid prototyping, and iterating on features used by millions, aiming to invent new interaction paradigms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build end-to-end product experiences across web services, APIs, and modern frontend applications.
  2. Partner closely with product, design, and research to rapidly prototype and launch new AI-native experiences.
  3. Build intuitive, performant interfaces that make advanced AI capabilities feel simple and delightful.
  4. Develop scalable backend systems that power personalized, real-time product experiences.
  5. Work with multimodal capabilities including text, images, and interactive UI components.

Skills

Required

  • frontend development
  • backend development
  • API development
  • consumer product development
  • multimodal capabilities
  • user feedback
  • experimentation
  • product metrics
  • systems thinking
  • attention to detail
  • communication

Nice to have

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Python
  • Go
  • Node.js
  • Rust
  • distributed systems
  • cloud infrastructure
  • AI products
  • machine learning products
  • search
  • recommendations
  • personalization
  • multimodal systems

What the JD emphasized

  • invent entirely new interaction paradigms
  • building consumer-facing products end to end
  • taking ideas from zero to one
  • shipping products quickly

Other signals

  • building new multimodal product experiences
  • combining language, images, personalization, and interactive interfaces
  • help millions of users accomplish tasks
  • invent entirely new interaction paradigms