Full Stack Software Engineer, Product Explorations

About the Team

The Product Explorations team is a small, high-ownership product exploration group focused on turning new model capabilities into impactful user experiences.

We operate across Applied and Research, working closely with product, engineering, design, and research partners to identify promising opportunities, prototype quickly, validate ideas, and determine which efforts should scale into larger product investments.

Our objective is broad: discover and build experiences that can meaningfully improve user engagement, product impact, and revenue across OpenAI’s products. We move quickly, follow strong product signals, and take ideas from early exploration to meaningful user impact.

We are looking for product-minded full stack engineers to join the Product Explorations team and drive high-impact, net-new product explorations.

In this role, you will independently identify promising opportunities, move quickly from idea to prototype, and work across teams to validate and launch new experiences. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, use strong product intuition, and make thoughtful decisions in ambiguous environments.

You may work on a new ChatGPT experience one week, explore a new model capability the next, and partner with Research or Applied teams to turn the strongest ideas into scalable products. This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys building from scratch, iterating quickly, and working on projects where the path forward is not always obvious.

• Identify and pursue high-leverage product and technical opportunities across OpenAI’s products

• Move quickly from idea to prototype, validation, launch, and iteration

• Build full stack product experiences that unlock value from new model capabilities

• Work closely with Research, Applied, product, design, data science, and engineering partners

• Use user feedback, product signals, and experimentation to determine which ideas should scale

• Drive alignment across teams and helping shape a culture of speed, ownership, curiosity, and thoughtful experimentation

• Have experience building and shipping full stack product experiences, from early prototypes through production

• Thrive in early-stage, highly iterative environments and can move quickly from idea to execution with limited structure

• Bring strong product intuition and an ability to identify what matters most for users and the business

• Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across engineering, product, design, and research

• Bring a high degree of autonomy, agency, and ownership in ambiguous environments

• Want to work at the intersection of model capabilities, product development, and user impact

• This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

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 OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably…