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About the Team The Legal team is building the next generation of AI-powered products and experiences for the legal industry. We are exploring how advanced AI systems can transform legal workflows, improve access to information, and enable legal professionals and organizations to work more effectively. As a founding member of the Legal engineering team, you will help define the technical foundation for this new product area from the earliest stages. You’ll operate at the intersection of AI, product, and real-world legal workflows—identifying opportunities, building prototypes, and turning emerging ideas into scalable products that can create meaningful impact. We operate with a startup-like mindset inside OpenAI: small teams, rapid iteration cycles, and a willingness to explore bold ideas, learn quickly, and adapt based on user feedback. Our goal is to build products that meaningfully improve how legal professionals work while leveraging OpenAI’s cutting-edge models and infrastructure. About the Role As a Founding Full-Stack Software Engineer on the Legal team, you will help imagine, build, and scale new AI-powered products for the legal industry. You’ll work across the stack to design intuitive user experiences, build robust backend systems, and create the foundations for products used by legal professionals and organizations around the world. You’ll have significant ownership from the earliest stages—working closely with product, design, research, and go-to-market partners to understand customer needs, shape product direction, and deliver high-impact solutions. This includes rapidly prototyping new concepts, building production-quality applications on top of OpenAI’s platforms, and developing new technical approaches when existing systems are not sufficient. We’re looking for engineers who thrive in ambiguity, have strong product instincts, and enjoy building from 0→1. You should be comfortable moving quickly, making thoughtful technical decisions, and taking owner

About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role We’re looking for an experienced systems software engineer to help define and build the host software stack for our custom next-generation AI systems. You will work close to the hardware on performance-critical software, including Linux kernel drivers, high-throughput I/O paths, and system-scale networking and RDMA. This role spans architecture, implementation, platform bring-up, debugging, and performance optimization. You will work across hardware and software boundaries to make new systems usable end to end, from low-level device interfaces through userspace tooling and production validation. In this role you will: Design, implement, and debug host-side systems software for AI infrastructure, including Linux kernel drivers and supporting userspace components. Build and optimize software paths for high-throughput, low-latency communication, including RDMA and related networking functionality. Develop software around PCIe, DMA, NICs, accelerators, memory movement, and device interaction. Bring up new hardware platforms and diagnose complex issues across kernel, firmware, networking, and hardware boundaries. Build tooling for integration, testing, diagnostics, observability, qualification, and performance characterization. Collaborate with hardware, networking, and platform teams to define interfaces and integrate new capabilities. Work with external vendors where needed to integrate technologies and drive issues to resolution. Contribute across the systems sof

About the Team OpenAI’s API Platform organization builds the products and infrastructure that help first-party and third-party developers build with OpenAI models. We ship the API primitives, tools, SDKs, documentation, playgrounds, and platform experiences that make OpenAI’s capabilities reliable, understandable, and useful in production. The API Experience team is focused on the end-to-end developer experience for the OpenAI API. We own the surfaces developers touch every day: docs, SDKs, the Playground, examples, onboarding flows, and the systems that help developers go from first request to production deployment quickly and confidently. About the Role We’re looking for full stack and frontend engineers to help define and build the next generation of OpenAI’s developer experience. In this role, you’ll work across frontend product surfaces, backend systems, SDK and documentation pipelines, and API workflows that serve millions of developers and companies. You’ll partner closely with product, design, research, API engineering, and developer-facing teams to make complex AI capabilities simple to understand, easy to test, and safe to launch in real-world applications. This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who cares deeply about craft, developer empathy, reliability, and product velocity. In this role, you will: Build and scale developer-facing products including the OpenAI API Playground, documentation experiences, onboarding flows, examples, and API workflow tools. Own full stack projects end to end, from product definition and UX collaboration through backend implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration. Improve the systems that generate, maintain, and publish SDKs, API references, docs, guides, and developer examples. Partner with API, research, design, and infrastructure teams to bring new model capabilities and API primitives to developers in a clear, usable way. Use developer feedback, product analytics, and direct customer insight to identif

The ChatGPT Finances team builds experiences that help people connect their financial accounts, understand their financial picture, and ask useful questions about their finances through ChatGPT. Our work spans account connectivity, data ingestion, dashboards, personalized insights, and conversational experiences. We collaborate across product, design, research, infrastructure, security, and data integrations to make complex financial information understandable and actionable. This is an early and ambitious product area with a substantial roadmap. We are looking for engineers who want to shape both the first user experiences and the durable systems required to earn and keep users’ trust. About the role We’re looking for full-stack product engineers to build and scale ChatGPT Finances. You will own features across the stack—from polished frontend experiences to the APIs, services, and data models that power them. This role is well suited to engineers who combine strong product judgment with broad technical depth. You should care about how quickly users can understand their financial lives, how reliably data moves through the system, and how AI can answer financial questions in a grounded, transparent, and useful way. You will work closely with product, design, research, infrastructure, security, and data integration teams to take ideas from early prototypes to reliable production experiences. In this role, you will Own full-stack product features from user experience and frontend implementation through backend services, data models, deployment, and observability. Build polished, accessible, and performant interfaces for account connection, dashboards, insights, and conversational workflows. Design APIs and backend systems that safely ingest, normalize, and serve financial data. Build resilient integrations that handle synchronization, data freshness, partial failures, permissions, and user consent. Bring new AI capabilities into production while prioritizing grounding

About the Team The Coding team is reimagining how software is built in the AI era. We build tools and workflows that help software engineers work faster, tackle more ambitious projects, and spend less time on repetitive tasks. AI has already transformed how code is written, but software engineering extends far beyond coding. Our mission is to apply AI across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) — from design and implementation to code review, testing, debugging, issue remediation, maintenance, documentation, and user support. The team is also responsible for developer-facing Codex experiences including the Codex IDE Extension and the terminal interface, which are used daily by developers ranging from individual open-source contributors to some of the world’s largest engineering organizations. The team also works closely with the open-source software community, building tools that help maintainers and contributors manage increasingly complex projects. We believe AI can make open-source development more sustainable by reducing the operational burden of reviewing contributions, triaging issues, maintaining quality, and supporting growing communities. By building the future of software development, we're helping advance OpenAI's mission of ensuring that the benefits of AI reach people around the world. About the Role We’re hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer to help invent the next generation of AI-powered software development workflows. “Full stack” in this role means much more than traditional frontend and backend development. You'll own complete product experiences, spanning user interfaces, workflow orchestration, agent and prompt design, backend systems, and cloud infrastructure. This is a highly product-oriented role. You'll work directly on the workflows developers use every day, identifying bottlenecks and rethinking how software gets built in a world where AI agents are active participants in the development process. The features you ship will inf

About the Team The Cybersecurity Products team builds products at the frontier of AI and cybersecurity. Our work includes Codex Security and related cyber products that turn advances in model capability into dependable tools for defenders. We help teams find, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities, continuously improve the security of software, and test AI-powered applications before they reach production. About the Role As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will build the product experiences and systems that make AI-powered security useful in real engineering environments. You will work across web surfaces, APIs, orchestration, data models, and integrations to help security and engineering teams move from a codebase or application to evidence-backed findings, prioritized remediation, and revalidation. You will collaborate closely with product engineers, security researchers, and customer-facing teams. The work spans fast-moving product development and hard systems problems: long-running workflows, large repositories, sensitive data, reliability, observability, and a high bar for earning user trust. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Build end-to-end workflows for vulnerability discovery, security scanning, red teaming, findings review, remediation, and reruns. Design and operate backend services for long-running security work, including APIs, asynchronous orchestration, durable state, and integrations with developer workflows. Make complex security results actionable through clear product surfaces, strong evidence, thoughtful prioritization, and reliable reporting. Partner with security researchers, product teams, and users to evaluate quality, reduce noise, improve coverage, and ship safely. You might thrive in this role if you: Have experience shipping production full-stack products across modern web frontends and backend s

About the Team The ChatGPT organization at OpenAI supports our mission by bringing advanced AI capabilities to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. The Image Generation team is responsible for one of the fastest-growing experiences in ChatGPT, enabling users to create, edit, and transform images through natural language. Recent breakthroughs in multimodal AI have dramatically improved image quality, instruction following, editing precision, consistency, and text rendering. We're building the systems and experiences that turn these research advances into products used daily by creators, professionals, businesses, and consumers around the world. Our team sits at the intersection of research, product, design, and infrastructure. We work closely with model researchers, mobile engineers, frontend engineers, and platform teams to build intuitive experiences and scalable systems that power image generation at global scale. Whether users are creating marketing assets, visualizing ideas, editing photos, designing products, or simply exploring their creativity, our goal is to make visual creation feel as natural as having a conversation. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer to join the Image Generation team and help shape the future of AI-powered visual creation. In this role, you'll own features end-to-end across both frontend and backend systems, building the experiences that enable users to generate, edit, organize, and interact with images inside ChatGPT. You'll work across the entire stack—from highly interactive user interfaces and real-time workflows to backend services, APIs, orchestration systems, and data infrastructure. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy moving fluidly between product development and systems engineering, collaborating closely with design, product, and research teams to rapidly bring new AI capabilities to users. You'll help define entirely new interaction paradigms as multimodal AI continues to evolve. In

About the Team OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products (such as ChatGPT & Codex) that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide. The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from identity & access, to safety to payments & commerce across all of our apps. Our teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety, working together to deliver technology that is reliable, secure, and trusted at global scale. About the Role We’re hiring Full-Stack Software Engineers to design and implement safe services, systems and infrastructure that power our core products. In this role, you will: Architect, build, and improve frontend and backend systems. Work across the full stack to build products and systems from initial exploration through launch readiness. Participate in long-term architectural planning and technical design reviews. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design solutions that protect against and mitigate adversarial attacks without compromising user experience. You might thrive in this role if you: Have built and shipped full-stack apps or systems end-to-end — in fast-moving, startup-like environments. Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed. Enjoy building resilient products and services that handle large scale and complexity. Are self-directed and enjoy figuring out the best way to solve a particular problem Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done. About OpenAI 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 t

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the Role We are looking for customer-focused software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. As an FDSWE, you will work with our customers and OpenAI Forward Deployed Engineers to design and implement scalable solutions that solve their most difficult problems. You will design abstractions to solve customer problems, and then use them to scale our speed and quality of delivery across all Forward Deployed engagements. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architects, and Customer Success Managers who work on the same account. You will also work with our Research and Applied Product and Engineering teams to provide insightful customer feedback. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role, you will: Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail. Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach. Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for both proof-of-concept prototypes and full production deployments. Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor, coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion on their infrastructure. Collaborate with Product, Research and Applied teams to ensure seamless customer experiences, project success and actionable product feedback Contribute to internal knowledge bases, codifying best practices and sharing insights gained from customer engagements to scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function. You’ll thrive in th

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the Role We are looking for customer-focused software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. As an FDSWE, you will work with our customers and OpenAI Forward Deployed Engineers to design and implement scalable solutions that solve their most difficult problems. You will design abstractions to solve customer problems, and then use them to scale our speed and quality of delivery across all Forward Deployed engagements. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architects, and Customer Success Managers who work on the same account. You will also work with our Research and Applied Product and Engineering teams to provide insightful customer feedback. This role is based in NYC. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role, you will: Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail. Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach. Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for both proof-of-concept prototypes and full production deployments. Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor, coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion on their infrastructure. Collaborate with Product, Research and Applied teams to ensure seamless customer experiences, project success and actionable product feedback Contribute to internal knowledge bases, codifying best practices and sharing insights gained from customer engagements to scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function. You’ll thrive in this role if

About the Team: GTM Innovation is a product engineering team with a charter to automate 100% of digital knowledge work in OpenAI's GTM, so sellers spend more time directly with customers. AGI-level reasoning doesn’t mean organization-level transformation “just works” out of the box; orgs must be redesigned around abundant intelligence and persistent virtual coworkers. Our team builds and scales a fleet of virtual coworkers that operate as full-time members of the account team, and redefines how our human-first revenue organization interacts with their agentic teammates. About the Role We’re looking for Full Stack software engineers with a product mindset to join the GTM Innovation team. As a product engineer on this team, you’ll help OpenAI meet the world at scale. You’ll partner closely with go-to-market teams to understand their workflows, identify leverage points, and ship novel solutions using OpenAI’s API platform. You’ll move quickly from prototype to production, and your work will directly shape how customers experience our technology in the field. This role is ideal for engineers who want to be close to users, own end-to-end outcomes, and help define entirely new categories of enterprise software. In this role, you will: Build high-impact applications and tools that accelerate OpenAI’s go-to-market efforts Work across the full product lifecycle for GTM: prototype, iterate, ship, and maintain Embed with Sales, Technical Success, and Revenue Operations to identify user needs and build for them Apply OpenAI’s models in novel ways to solve real-world customer and internal workflow problems Translate learnings into feedback for Applied and Research teams to inform product development You’ll thrive in this role if you: Have 4+ years of experience as a software/ML/product engineer working on user-facing systems Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch is a plus Are fluent in Python or JavaScript and comfortable building full-s

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the Role We are looking for customer-focused software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. As an FDSWE, you will work with our customers and OpenAI Forward Deployed Engineers to design and implement scalable solutions that solve their most difficult problems. You will design abstractions to solve customer problems, and then use them to scale our speed and quality of delivery across all Forward Deployed engagements. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architects, and Customer Success Managers who work on the same account. You will also work with our Research and Applied Product and Engineering teams to provide insightful customer feedback. This role is based in Seattle. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role, you will: Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail. Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach. Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for both proof-of-concept prototypes and full production deployments. Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor, coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion on their infrastructure. Collaborate with Product, Research and Applied teams to ensure seamless customer experiences, project success and actionable product feedback Contribute to internal knowledge bases, codifying best practices and sharing insights gained from customer engagements to scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function. You’ll thrive in this rol

About the team OpenAI’s Education team is building products and experiences that help learners, educators, and institutions benefit from AI in ways that are rigorous, useful, and grounded in real learning outcomes. The work spans both consumer and B2B education, with close collaboration across engineering, learning science, design, data, and research. This team sits in a highly strategic investment area for OpenAI, with strong opportunities to shape how product ideas flow across consumer and institution-facing experiences. Some of our recent work: New Education Plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex New tools for understanding AI and learning outcomes Education for countries Advancements in higher education Early product work - Introducing Study Mode About the role We’re looking for a product-minded Full Stack Engineer to help build OpenAI’s education products from the ground up. You’ll own end-to-end development across the stack, from early concepting and prototyping through production launch and iteration. This is an opportunity to work on a highly strategic, early-stage product area where engineering judgment, product sense, and customer empathy all matter. You’ll partner closely with leaders across the education org, including learning scientists, researchers, designers, and cross-functional partners, to turn emerging ideas into durable product experiences for schools, universities, and other education stakeholders. In this role, you will: Build and ship product experiences across the full stack for OpenAI’s education offerings Own projects end-to-end, from ideation and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration Work closely with learning scientists and researchers to translate learning goals and evidence into product decisions Collaborate with design, data, and cross-functional partners to build thoughtful, high-quality user experiences Help define the engineering foundation for a growing education pod, including patterns, systems, and technical

About the Team OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is responsible for planning, delivering, operating, and optimizing the compute infrastructure that powers frontier AI. As OpenAI scales toward becoming an intelligence utility, Industrial Compute coordinates a complex lifecycle spanning infrastructure strategy, capacity planning, provider partnerships, fleet operations, product demand, and financial planning. The organization manages one of the largest and fastest-growing compute footprints in the world, where decisions around capacity allocation, deployment readiness, utilization, reliability, and product demand directly impact product availability, customer experience, and business performance. The Capacity Systems team builds the software platforms, data systems, and automation frameworks that connect these functions into a shared operating model. We transform fragmented planning workflows into scalable systems that enable teams to understand what compute was contracted, delivered, healthy, allocated, and ultimately converted into business and research outcomes. About the Role We are seeking a Capacity Systems Software Engineer to build the platforms and services that power Industrial Compute planning, forecasting, optimization, and operational decision-making. In this role, you will design and develop software systems that connect infrastructure delivery, fleet health, capacity allocation, demand forecasting, deployment readiness, financial planning, and product consumption into a unified system of record. Your work will help OpenAI make better decisions about where compute should be deployed, how capacity should be allocated, and how infrastructure investments translate into business value. You will partner closely with Capacity Planning, Fleet Operations, Infrastructure Engineering, Product, Finance, Supply Chain, and Strategic Sourcing teams to replace spreadsheet-driven workflows with scalable software systems that enable visibility, automation, and dec

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity The Customer Journey team at Postman is responsible for shaping how users experience the product from their first interaction through to becoming active, engaged customers. We own the critical paths between sign-up and purchase including new user onboarding and the moments where users discover and adopt key features. As Postman expands what it means to be a customer, from enterprise organizations to teams of engineers to individual developers working with AI agents, this team plays a central role in defining and evolving those experiences. We’re looking for a Senior Engineer who is excited to build and improve product journeys end-to-end. You’ll work at the intersection of product, design, and engineering to create intuitive, high-quality experiences that help users find value in Postman—whether they’re exploring on their own or collaborating as part of a team. What You’ll Do Own and improve key product journeys from sign-up through onboarding, feature discovery, and purchase Build and refine user experiences that help developers and teams quickly understand and realize the value of Pos