Software Engineer, Full Stack; Innovation

Software Engineer, Full Stack (People Innovation)

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At OpenAI, we’re building the connective tissue between our mission and our people. People Innovation Labs is a fast‑moving engineering team embedded in the People organization, focused on rethinking how we find and retain the best talent and empower everyone to do their best work. From recruiting to culture, we’re designing systems that give our People Team a significant edge by infusing OpenAI’s models and first‑principles thinking into every aspect of our work.

Our projects range from greenfield 0‑1 products like Open House (our internal knowledge hub) to AI‑powered automations and scalable recruiting tools. We’re defining the future of work at OpenAI, creating a blueprint for how AI can supercharge productivity, culture, and innovation.

We are looking for a self‑starter engineer who loves building new products in an iterative and fast‑moving environment. This team is for full‑stack product engineers who are deeply curious about culture, recruiting and people development, and want to know everything from the business strategy and metrics down through the code that gets us there. In this role, you will work with members of the People Team and leaders across the company to build software focused on HR, culture and recruiting from the ground up.

You’ll also innovate on how we apply LLMs in these domains.

• Own the full product development lifecycle for new people products end‑to‑end
• Talk to internal stakeholders to understand their problems and design solutions to address them
• Work with the research team to share relevant feedback and iterate on applying their latest models
• Collaborate with a cross‑functional team of engineers, HRBPs, recruiters, researchers, product managers, designers, and people in operations to create cutting‑edge products

• 4+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product‑driven companies
• Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch is a plus
• Interest in building company culture and/or recruiting the world’s most talented people
• Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies
• Proficiency with a backend language (we use Python)
• Some experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
• Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)
• Ability to move quickly in an environment with loosely defined tasks and competing priorities or deadlines

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.

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Seniority level:
Mid‑Senior level

Employment type:

Full‑time

Job function:
Engineering and Information Technology

Industry: Research Services