Senior Full Stack Engineer, Communications & Design

About The Team

Communications Design tells OpenAI’s story—what we’re doing and why it matters—to the world through a variety of surfaces, most notably openai.com. Our small but nimble and growing team supports the design and development needs across the entire company, and sits within a larger team of professionals in press relations, public policy, and employee communications.

Communicating the advances and benefits of AGI is some of the most important work at OpenAI, and our goal is to do it in a beautiful, accessible, scalable, systematic way, with transparency and authenticity.

About The Role

As the first Full-Stack Developer on the Communications Design team, you will help design, deploy and maintain our web platform, which serves millions of people each day. This includes building out new features, optimizing performance, and improving accessibility around the world and building systematic solutions to support a fast growing organization. Our current infrastructure consists of a NextJS frontend with a headless CMS, you will play a pivotal role in evolving this to the company’s needs as we grow.

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:

• Architect, build and deploy critical pieces of infrastructure like data pipelines, localization, and support for A/B experimentation.
• Improve user experience for visitors around the world by improving site performance and functionality.
• Author internal products and tools allowing the team and others at OpenAI to deliver on company strategies with increased velocity.
• Work with a group of talented front-end developers, designers, and producers as well as cross-functional stakeholders from all around the company.

You Might Thrive In The Role If You:

• Have at least 6 years of backend and/or full stack development experience with emphasis on API design.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Care deeply about quality, functionality, and the humans we’re communicating to by sweating the details, down to the last page request.
• Are innately curious.
• Enjoy (in fact, prefer) working quickly.

Compensation, Benefits And Perks

The annual salary range for this role is $190,000 – $240,000. Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
• Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year.
• Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support.
• Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year).

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.